Deputy Health Minister: ‘COVID-19 vaccine will initially be available for elderly people in Georgia’
Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), promised Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia on December 27 that he will help Georgia receive a primary batch of vaccine doses as soon as possible. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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After Georgia receives the coronavirus vaccine, it will initially be available for elderly people in Georgia, said Deputy Health Minister of Georgia Tamar Gabunia earlier today.
Gabunia said Georgia is expected to receive Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines for COVID-19 virus.
There are a number of procedures to be followed in order for a country to receive a vaccine, even a single dose. As of today, the Health Ministry is expected to import three vaccines that have been already authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO)”, said Gabunia.
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Georgia is holding negotiations with British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and public–private global health partnership Gavi to receive the coronavirus vaccine if and when it becomes available, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today. He said that the vaccine developed by the UK Oxford Group, in partnership with AstraZeneca, is ‘enormously promising.’
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Georgia will get 1.4 million doses of vaccine via the Covax (COVID-19 vaccines Global Access Facility) platform and will purchase the remaining two million doses through negotiations with EU countries and vaccine manufacturers, Deputy Health Minister of Georgia Tamar Gabunia said earlier today.