Ivane Chkhaidze, Medical Director of the M. Iashvili Central Children's Hospital and Head of the National Technical Group of Immunization Advisers, says that the rate of coronavirus infection and hospitalization of children in Georgia has increased. 

He stated earlier today that every nine children in 100 infected with Covid-19 need to be hospitalized in the country.

Chkhaidze said that vaccination of children between 12 and 15 is likely to drop the rate. 

He said that vaccination in the age group decreases the need for hospitalisation by 20 percent. 

Georgia has reported 4,446 new cases of coronavirus, 5,320 recoveries and 77 deaths in the past 24 hours. 51,662 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia.

2,074,270 individuals have received  at least one dose of the vaccine in the country so far, of which  973,796 have been completely vaccinated.