Vaccination officers - Ministry of Health launches new project
By Natalia Kochiashvili
Wednesday, April 28
Minister of Health Ekaterine Tikaradze announced that starting next week, additional 78 vaccination centers will open in Georgia. The decision was made at the meeting of the Immunization Council.
“The network will be significantly expanded. More than 100 groups have already been trained and in total, there will be 178 centers in Georgia, where the vaccination process will be held."
All citizens over the age of 18 can register for a vaccination with Sinopharm. The vaccination portal opened last evening. Citizens can register on the website booking.moh.gov.ge.
Vaccination with Chinese Sinopharn will start on May 4.
Tikaradze stated there are numerous studies that prove Sinopharm is a safe vaccine for citizens between the ages of 18 and 60, adding it is the reason why the Council relied on the international decision.
To the question - what will the Ministry of Health do if WHO does not grant authorization to Sinopharm and whether the vaccination will be stopped, the Minister of Health answers: “Sinopharm is safe. In addition, we rely on the decision of strict regulators in which countries vaccination with Sinopharm is underway. Millions of people have already been vaccinated with the Sinopharm vaccine."
As for the effectiveness of Sinopharm, according to Tikaradze, the priority is to reduce the death rate: "It is important to use all possibilities to prevent our citizens from becoming infected.”
The minister informed that Georgia would receive 43 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine by April 30 and 43 thousand more in May. 250 000 doses of Sinophram will arrive in June, and up to a million doses of Pfizer are expected to be received, but the date hasn’t been specified so far.
Note that as of April 27, in the last 24 hours, 1578 cases of the virus infection were confirmed, 909 citizens recovered, and 17 died.
According to the NCDC data, a total of 40,095 vaccinations have been administered.
