Georgia has switched to weekly reporting of coronavirus updates, Health Minister has announced today. From now on, the coronavirus update will be published every Tuesday.

About 200 most in-demand drug prices slumped by 60-70% after Georgia opened the Turkish pharmaceutical market, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated at today’s Cabinet meeting.

The first batch of Pfizer’s Covid-19 pills Paxlovid has arrived in Georgia on Tuesday.

Approximately 50 thousand Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 jabs for children aged 5-12 will arrive in Georgia in the second quarter of the year, said Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of the National Center for Diseases Control and Public Health (NCDC).

The Interagency Coordination Council decided to ease the current COVID regulations on the grounds of the analysis of the current epidemic situation in Georgia.

The Omicron peak in Georgia has passed but the current week will give the more precise answer, Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia said on Wednesday. The number of daily positive cases will likely shrink by the end of the month, she projected.

Georgian Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia said that the daily coronavirus data in Georgia indicates a downward trend.