Elderly, medics from Georgia’s occupied regions allowed to undergo Covid-19 vaccination on Tbilisi-controlled territory
Georgia began vaccination of medical workers and top officials on March 15 after the country received the first 43,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Photo: Ministry of Health of Adjara.
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Medical workers and individuals above 65 residing in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Tskhinvali and Abkhazia regions will be able to undergo Covid-19 vaccination on Tbilisi-controlled territory, Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, Tea Akhvlediani said earlier today.
???????? gov't is 2 offer residents of t/ occupied territories of #Abkhazia & #Tskhinvali 2 undergo #COVID19 vaccination on ????????-controlled territory. T/ decision is yet another proof of how much our gov't cares abt its people & spares no efforts 2 prevent further spread of deadly virus.
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) March 30, 2021
Georgia began vaccination of medical workers and top officials on March 15 after the country received the first 43,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Georgian top officials including Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze and President Salome Zurabishvili received the vaccine live on TV to encourage people to vaccinate.
29,250 doses of the US-German Pfizer/BioNtech coronavirus vaccine entered Georgia on March 24.
Since March 25, people over 65 years of age have been allowed to register for the Covid-19 vaccination in Georgia and make a choice between the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.