$15 mln ADB loan to help Georgia procure Covid-19 vaccines
ADB’s Covid-19 Vaccine Support Project for Georgia will procure enough vaccines to inoculate about 300,000 people, or about 8% of Georgia’s total population. Photo: Bing Guan| Bloomberg | Getty Images.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $15 million loan to support Georgia’s National Vaccines Deployment Plan by purchasing and delivering an estimated 700,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as well as syringes, safety boxes, and other items for administering vaccines, announces the ADB.
It is financed through ADB’s $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility launched in December 2020 to offer rapid and equitable vaccine-related support to ADB developing member countries.
This project will help save lives in Georgia and restore the confidence of citizens", said ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa.
The government aims to vaccinate 60% of the total adult population in 2021, or about 1.7 million people. ADB’s Covid-19 Vaccine Support Project for Georgia will procure enough vaccines to inoculate about 300,000 people, or about 8% of Georgia’s total population.
The project builds on ADB’s earlier support for Georgia’s Covid-19 response. This includes:
- $100 million loan to support social protection and businesses affected by the economic slowdown
- $200 million policy-based loan to strengthen Georgia’s social protection, fiscal, and debt management systems
- $2.5 million grant to increase testing capacity and procure medical equipment
Image: ADB.
Meanwhile, Georgian health officials are concerned about the possible spoil of a certain portion of the German-US Pfizer vaccine because of the low rate of coronavirus vaccination in the country.
Currently 816,913 doses of Pfizer vaccine are available in the country now, which data expires in December.
About 10,000-11,000 individuals have received the coronavirus vaccine over the past several days in Georgia, while the figure stood at around 20,000 and more at the beginning of the month.
In total 1,700,895 have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine (Pfizer, Sinovac, Sinopharm or AstraZeneca) since March 2021, of which 740,814 have been completely vaccinated - more than 25% of the country’s adult population.
Georgia has reported 1,698 new cases of coronavirus, 1,910 recoveries and 38 deaths in the past 24 hours. 22,635 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia. 25,692 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 15,310 of the 25,692 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 10,382 were PCR tests.
The Labor Inspection Service of the Georgian Health Ministry has found that in the vast majority of Covid clinics salaries for doctors are unequally distributed while in some hospitals employees have not received vacation and medical leave payments in recent months.
Head of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Centre of Tbilisi Tengiz Tsertsvadze has called the low rate of coronavirus vaccination in Georgia ‘apocalypse and a sabotage against the state by Georgian citizens.’
Georgia has reported 1,653 new cases of coronavirus, 2,646 recoveries and 47 deaths in the last 24 hours. A total of 22,885 people remain infected with Covid-19 in the country. 28,553 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 15, 965 of the 28,553 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 12,588 were PCR tests.
Georgia has reported a total of 1,597 new cases of the coronavirus after conducting 34,331 tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the new cases 497 were reported in Tbilisi. There are 23,005 active cases of the covonavirus throughout the country.
A total of 1,132 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 in Georgia after conducting 20,789 tests over the 24 hours. Meanwhile, 2,956 patients have recovered from the coronavirus and 30 infected individuals have died.
Georgia has reported 663 new cases of coronavirus, 2,383 recoveries and 27 deaths in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate has come down to 4.99% of tested individuals for Covid-19 as of September 26 in comparison to 6.48% of last two weeks. In total, 13,277 tests have been conducted around the country of which 7,302 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 5,975 were PCR tests. Currently 19,404 individuals remain infected with Covid-19.
Georgia has reported 2,185 new cases of coronavirus, 2,010 recoveries and 40 deaths in the past 24 hours. 19,538 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia. 31,216 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 19,877 of the 31,216 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 11,339 were PCR tests.
Georgia has received a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, the Ministry of Health reports.Vaccination with Sinopharm is available for citizens over 18 years. Two doses are required for the vaccination which are given at 21-28 day intervals.
Georgia has reported 1,826 new cases of the coronavirus after conducting a total of 51,248 tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the 1,826 new cases 596 in Tbilisi.