Amiran Gamkrelidze: The exact amount of Pfizer vaccine that Georgia will receive by late February will be known tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, Director General of the National Center for Disease Control, the exact amount of Pfizer vaccine that Georgia will receive by the end of February will be known tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

As Amiran Gamkrelidze told InterPressNews, Georgia is among the countries that will be supplied with the first doses of Pfizer vaccine from Covax.

"It has been confirmed that Georgia will receive the Pfizer vaccine in February. We will know the exact number of doses tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It will be a letter. We have received just a message that Georgia was among the countries that would receive the first doses of Pfizer vaccine from Covax.

As is our plan, the medical staff will be vaccinated first. The approximate number of doses, as far as I know, will be up to 30 thousand,” said Gamkrelidze.

The import of the vaccine by late February was announced today evening by the Prime Minister. “The first doses of Pfizer vaccine are due to arrive in Georgia by late February. Special thanks to my country’s and my personal friend, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for supporting Georgia. According to the National Plan for Vaccination, first dozes will be administered to healthcare workers. #VaccineWorks”, Giorgi Gakharia tweeted.