Amiran Gamkrelidze: Up to 400,000 doses of Pfizer may expire until the end of March

According to the head of the National Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze, up to 400,000 doses of Pfizer may remain unused until the end of March.

As he told InterPressNews, the country received the vaccine through donations.

"Up to 350-400 thousand doses of Pfizer have a deadline until the end of March. The state, the Ministry of Health, has ordered new doses of Pfizer, which the country will receive by the end of March. We think that the vaccination process will continue in April-May.

It is unfortunate that we have one of the best vaccines and the demand is so low. there is a risk that they will remain unused, unless vaccination pace increases. As you know, we had 2 million doses of Pfizer in the country, a million of them were bought by the state, and the rest came through donations. We have used what we bought with the state budget. We have now those received it through donation. Although it is a gift, it is still very disappointing that we have such a vaccine with high protection and the activity of the population is low," Gamkrelidze said.