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TBILISI – Georgia will gradually receive a total of 3.6 million doses of coronavirus vaccines between July and October, the head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze, told journalists on June 11.

A timetable has been formed for guaranteed deliveries from four manufacturers, he said, without specifying the vaccines.

Earlier the Health Ministry said that Georgia expected to receive at least one million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and about half a million of China’s Sinopharm.

According to recent polls, about 49% of Georgia’s population wants to be vaccinated, 20% are undecided, and the rest (31%) said they did not want to be inoculated, Gamkrelidze said.

“The main thing for us is to give this 49% the possibility to easily get inoculated, with the 20% we will work together with mass media through awareness campaigns to persuade them that humankind has not come up with anything better than vaccines,” he said.

Georgia has recorded 352,649 confirmed cases and 5,012 deaths since the pandemic began.