Amiran Gamkrelidze: The Pfizer vaccine, the validity term of which has been extended, has no lower protection and is not expired

Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, says the Pfizer vaccine, the validity term of which has been extended, has no lower protection.

As Gamkrelidze told InterpressNews, the Pfizer vaccine available in the country protects a person very well from the virus and it has about 95-97% protection.

“The validity term of Pfizer, which was initially set at 6 months, was extended by the company itself from 6 to 9 months after research, so there is nothing out of date in the country. I, too, have been vaccinated with this vaccine, as well as my family members and co-workers, so do not believe that the medicine has expired! How can the state offer expired medicine and vaccines to the population? Nothing is expired, it works well. So I ask everyone to come and receive "booster" shots.

The ministry is working on the import of a new batch. At the moment we have enough - 500 thousand doses of Pfizer and 700 thousand doses of Sinopharm, as well as Sinovac," - said Gamkrelidze.