Additional Vaccines against Swine Flu to Be Imported

The Head of the National Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze, has announced that further imports of the vaccine against H1N1 (commonly known as Swine flu) have arrived and 7,000 doses will be distributed throughout Georgia later today.

Citizens will have access to the new stores from January 23. Pregnant women and representatives of the risk groups are primarily recommended to undergo vaccination, which is available free of charge.

Swine flu has claimed a number of lives across the country in the past few weeks. The latest case was reported yesterday, January 21 when a 32-year-old woman died of H1N1 virus in the city of Kutaisi at the National Center for Interventional Medicine of West Georgia.

By Ketevan Kvaratskheliya

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