Preliminary findings show 85% of Georgians with Covid immunity

Preliminary findings of a National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) study has found about 85 percent of the Georgian population to have developed immunity against Covid-19, Amiran Gamkrelidze, the Head of the NCDC, said on Tuesday.

Gamkrelidze said the NCDC was studying data including the percentage of the Georgian population that had contracted the disease, and how many of them had been vaccinated against the virus.

Full results of the study, which covered nearly 20,000 people, will be available in about two weeks.

Georgia has reported 1,053 new Covid-19 cases, 2,067 recoveries, and seven deaths in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for the last 14 days stands at 7.19 percent.

Overall, 1,356,735 individuals have received at least one dose of any vaccine in the country so far, while 1,253,736 people have been fully vaccinated amounting to 43.5 percent of the country’s adult population and 232,573 have received booster shots of the vaccine.