According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, the head of the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia paid extra money, enabling us to choose the coronavirus vaccine.
Gamkrelidze explained that the country is working on direct procurement with several companies.
According to him, Georgia is cooperating with the Covax platform and will purchase billions of doses of various vaccines by 2021.
"Good payment terms were made with the Covax platform. We had paid the 4.5 million down payment, a little bit more, but we paid on the condition that we will choose the vaccine. Most likely, it will be somewhere in March-April. But, at the same time, we are also working on direct procurement, in addition to the Covax Platform with several other companies. We also had a big teleconference on Friday with direct purchases of Astra Zeneka and the Oxford vaccine," Gamkrelidze said.
According to him, Georgian embassies are also involved in the process.
Three thousand two hundred sixteen new patients tested positive for coronavirus in Georgia, while 3 937 patients defeated the virus. Information about this got published on the official website created by the government.
According to stopcov.ge, 135 584 people have COVID-19 in the country, of which 113 986 already recovered.
1 267 people died due to the virus in Georgia, 37 of them during the last 24 hours.
The first case of coronavirus got detected on February 26, 2020, in Georgia.
The World Health Organization recognized coronavirus as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
The outbreak of pneumonia in China began in December of 2019.
China confirmed that coronavirus was contagious and declared quarantine in two cities on January 21.
