China to donate 100,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine to Georgia

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Chinese government will donate 100,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine to Georgia in April, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said on Monday, April 5, Agenda.ge reports.

Georgia received 100,000 doses of Chinese Sinopharm vaccine last week and the country is planning to purchase the Chinese Sinovac vaccine in April, Gamkrelidze said.

He noted that both vaccines are likely to be approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) in mid-April and Georgia will launch vaccination afterwards.

"Currently China has five coronavirus vaccines and two of them, Sinonac and Sinopharm, have been used internationally. 15 million doses of Sinovac vaccines have already been used in Turkey and about 500,000 doses in Azerbaijan,” Gamkrelidze said.

The Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using dead viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking serious disease response.