Tengiz Tsertsvadze, the head of Tbilisi's infectious diseases, Aids and immunology research centre, says that if Georgia gets the vaccine in February or March, the pandemic will lose its power in the summer of 2021, and the country will return to normal. In Tsertsvadze's words, after vaccination, the development of immunity will take another couple of months. "In high likelihood, we will return to normal in the summer of the next year," he said.
Georgia recorded 2,345 cases in the last 24 hours. A total of 3,560 people recovered in a single day.
The country's death toll now stands at 2,233 (51 recent deaths).
Georgia confirmed its first COVID-19 case on 26 February 2020. The WHO labeled the novel virus a pandemic on 11 March 2020, with its outbreak starting in China in December of 2019. On 21 January, China confirmed that the new coronavirus is contagious and declared quarantine in its two cities.
