March-December 2021: 385 vaccinated, 10,532 unvaccinated die from Covid in Georgia

Overall, seven cases of death following jabs were registered in Georgia, of which five cases were classified as “incompatible with immunisation” and the two remaining cases not completely reviewed yet. Photo: NCDC Georgia.

Agenda.ge, 04 Feb 2022 - 13:54, Tbilisi,Georgia

A total of 385 vaccinated people and 10,532 unvaccinated individuals died from Covid-19 in Georgia between March 15-December 31, 2021, the latest report of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reads.

The figure comes as part of a range of metrics and stats collected by the centre and released to trace the dynamics of the virus in the country, from ratings of vaccine protection to reinfection figures.

Among the numbers is the 0.52 percent mortality rate among the fully vaccinated individuals in the reported period, with the centre also revealing “the chance of getting infected with Covid-19 [in case of] unvaccinated persons was 7.7 times higher than in the case of fully vaccinated citizens.”

The report also reads that vaccination with the booster shot against Covid-19 increases the protection against infection to 99.66 percent from 86.94 percent.

Overall, seven cases of death following jabs were registered in Georgia, of which five cases were classified as “incompatible with immunisation” and the two remaining cases not completely reviewed yet.

As of January 1, 2022, a total of 159,977 children and adolescents were infected with the Covid-19, accounting for 17.1 percent of the confirmed cases. Out of these, 49 percent were girls and 51 percent boys. 

A total of 10,997 cases of ​​reinfection have been reported since the virus outbreak in the country, of which 1,833 were with fully vaccinated individuals. Four deaths were reported among this latter group.

The possible reinfection with Covid-19 per 100,000 persons is highest among women aged 30-39. Out of the 10,997 possible reinfected cases, a total of 52 deaths were recorded with Covid-19, all in the age group above 40,” the report says.

Another figure released by the health authorities shows 10,687 pregnant women confirmed with coronavirus from the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 until January 1, 2022. ​​The highest rate of confirmed cases in pregnant women falls in the 25-29 age group, based on the NCDC data.

As for the Omicron coronavirus variant, the NCDC has revealed a total of 1,532 cases between December 14, 2021-January 23, 2022, of which 900 individuals have already recovered, 38 patients required hospitalisation and three of them died.