Georgia receives one million doses of Chinese Sinopharm vaccine
Vaccination with Sinopharm is available for citizens over 18 years. Two doses are required for the vaccination which are given at 21-28 day intervals. Photo: Ministry of Health.
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Georgia has received a million doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, the Ministry of Health reports.
Vaccination with Sinopharm is available for citizens over 18 years. Two doses are required for the vaccination which are given at 21-28 day intervals.
The government of Georgia aims to vaccinate 60% of the total adult population in 2021, or about 1.7 million people.
Recently the Asian Development Bank has approved a $15 million loan to support Georgia’s National Vaccines Deployment Plan by purchasing and delivering an estimated 700,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as well as syringes, safety boxes, and other items for administering vaccines.
The ADB's Covid-19 Vaccine Support Project for Georgia will procure enough vaccines to inoculate about 300,000 people, or about 8% of Georgia’s total population.
Meanwhile, Georgian health officials are concerned about the possible spoil of a certain portion of the German-US Pfizer vaccine because of the low rate of coronavirus vaccination in the country.
In total 814,851 people have been completely vaccinated in Georgia which is 28.5% of the country's adult population.
The Georgian Ministry of Education has denied rumours that teachers will be obliged to get vaccinated against Covid-19. General Director of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze told Rustavi 2 on September 30 that ‘a draft law on mandatory vaccination for teachers is being prepared’.
Georgia has reported 1,751 new cases of coronavirus, 1,633 recoveries and 30 deaths in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate has come down to 4.1% of tested individuals for Covid-19 as of September 30 in comparison to 5.80% of last two weeks. In total, 42,657 tests have been conducted around the country of which 28,199 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 14,458 were PCR tests.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $15 million loan to support Georgia’s National Vaccines Deployment Plan by purchasing and delivering an estimated 700,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines as well as syringes, safety boxes, and other items for administering vaccines. ADB’s project will procure enough vaccines to inoculate about 300,000 people in Georgia.
Head of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Centre of Tbilisi Tengiz Tsertsvadze has called the low rate of coronavirus vaccination in Georgia ‘apocalypse and a sabotage against the state by Georgian citizens.’
A total of 8,106 people have been vaccinated in the past 24 hours in Georgia while the target of the Georgian government is to vaccinate 30,000 people daily to reach its vaccination goal of 60 per cent of the country population by the end of this year. The vaccination rate began to decline several weeks ago and less than 10,000 vaccinations have been administered daily since the start of October.