Swine flu death toll reaches 18 in Georgia
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Eighteen people have died because of the swine flu (H1N1) in Georgia this winter, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre says.
The most recent fatality took place yesterday, when a 41-year-old man died in Zugdidi, western Georgia.
Health officials stated that the man suffered a chronic illness and he was transported to the hospital six days after being infected.
The Georgian Health Ministry reports that currently 253 people are infected with flu per 100,000.
The ministry says that there is no risk of an epidemic and that cases of flu are gradually dwindling.
Agenda.ge team has converted influenza data of the past 10 years, published by the National Disease Control Centre into the infographics below. Click on the images for a larger view.
A woman who delivered via C-section birth a week ago has died allegedly due to the H1N1 flu.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stated that the state will cover the expenses for anti-flu medicine Tamiflu and Georgian citizens in need of the medicine will receive it free of charge, Georgian Health Minister David Sergeenko stated today.
The Georgian National Disease Control Centre has decided to reveal the statistics of flu in Georgia over the past 10 years to dispel speculations that 2018-2019 is an “exceptionally bad year” in terms of flu.
Seventeen people have died because of the H1N1 acute respiratory illness in Georgia, which is also known as swine flu, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre says.
Twelve days have passed since the closure of so-called borders by the de facto authorities of two occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) to avoid the “spread of flu.”
The first visit he took was to Iashvili Children's Central Hospital, where two children are being treated.
Two people have died because of the swine flu (H1N1) in Georgia in December, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre (NCDC) says.