Amiran Gamkrelidze: In order to stop the deterioration of the epidemic situation, it is necessary to vaccinate 30% of the population - we should try to get one million vaccinations in September

Our target this year is to vaccinate 60% of the adult population twice, that is 1.7 million people, - Amiran Gamukrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, told InterPressNews.

"In order to stop the deterioration of the situation in terms of the epidemic situation, it is necessary to vaccinate 30% of the population. The deterioration of the epidemiological situation stops at 30%, and in the case of 40%, the number of new cases decreases noticeably. We will get 650,000 vaccinations in August and we should try our best to get a million vaccinations in September, it is not a million people, but a million vaccinations, because you know that the vaccine is given twice", - Gamkrelidze said.