Preliminary findings show 85% of Georgians with Covid immunity
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. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.
Georgia will receive Paxlovid, a Covid-19 treatment medication created by Pfizer, starting this week, Georgian Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili announced on Tuesday.
Wearing a face mask in outdoor spaces will no longer be mandatory across Georgia starting March 28, Giorgi Ghibradze of the Interagency Coordination Council announced earlier today.
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The Georgian government expects the number of Covid-19 cases to decrease in the upcoming weeks and to see the general situation with the epidemic to stabilise by the end of March, the country's prime minister Irakli Garibashvili said earlier today.
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