By Veronika Malinboym
Wednesday, March 17
The National Center for Disease Control has announced that 668 people in Georgia have already received the newly delivered AstraZeneca vaccine in Georgia, and 4, 202 medical workers have already registered to receive a vaccine. On March 15, when the nationwide vaccination programme was launched in the country, several health officials and doctors were jabbed during the livestream aired on TV.
The first one to register to receive the dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine was 73-year old Tamar Giorgadze, while the first one to receive the shot was the deputy head of the National Center for Disease Control, Paata Imnadze. He later reported that he felt great after receiving the vaccine shot, and called for more people to follow his example. Imnadze added that the receival of the AstraZeneca vaccines in Georgia is the beginning of an end of the pandemic in Georgia, all while reinstating that the end of pandemic will not be possible without the
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe concerned over Russias refusal to pay compensation to Georgia
By Veronika Malinboym
Tuesday, March 16
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) expressed its profound concern over Russias refusal to pay a compensation amounting to 10 billion to the Georgian citizens who were illegally deported from Russia in 2006.
The compensation concerns the cases of arrest, detention, and consequent deportation of Georgian citizens from Russia in 2006 the events that unfolded shortly after the arrest of four Russian officers on charges of espionage in Georgia.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in 2019 that Russia is obliged to repay 10,000,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage suffered by a group of at least 1,500 Georgian nationals:
Georgia receives first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine
By Veronika Malinboym
Monday, March 15
On Saturday, March 13, 43,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in Georgia. UNICEF, which supported the Georgian government in procuring the vaccines announced on its Twitter page that the plane carrying the first doses of anti-coronavirus vaccines landed in Tbilisi airport. According to UNICEFs report, the vaccination program in Georgia will start on Monday, March 15, and the first doses will be administered to the priority groups including medical workers:
Vaccines will be distributed by the Government to all districts over the weekend and vaccinations are scheduled to start on 15 March. Administration of the vaccines will be based on the priority groups identified by the Government, with medical workers among the priority group. The 43,200 doses will be fully utilized for the first dose. This decision was taken based on the information that the next delivery of 86,400 doses w
European Union mediator holds a series of meetings with political parties in Georgia
By Veronika Malinboym
Monday, March 15
The EU-appointed mediator, Christian Danielsson, began a series of meetings with Georgian political parties, both the ruling Georgian Dream party and members of the opposition. Upon his arrival to Georgia, Danielsson told the press that the main topics for the upcoming negotiations would revolve around the issue of political prisoners, politicized justice, and electoral reform:
Electoral reform, politicized justice those are the issues that we should be considering closely, the issues that will become the [primary] topics of the upcoming negotiations. In the days to come, we are ready to work on resolving those issues, Danielsson said.
By Veronika Malinboym
Friday, March 12
On March 11, Georgian Minister of Health Ekaterine Tikaridze announced that the country will receive the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines as 43, 200 doses are expected to arrive over the weekend. Tikaridze noted that the first on the list of the recipients of the newly arriving vaccine are high-risk groups, starting from health workers.
Georgias Health Minister also reiterated that the country will receive 29,250 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of March. Head of the Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS Tengiz Tsertsvadze stated that once the initial doses of the vaccines expected to arrive later this month are administered, the rest of the vaccine will be issued gradually. According to Tsertsavadze, by the end of the year, Georgia will have received 3,5 million doses.