39-year-old woman dies of flu in Gori
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A thirty-nine-year old woman has died in a hospital in Gori, in a town of eastern Georgia, from the flu, doctors say. She left behind five children.
It has not been confirmed so far whether it was the swine flu or not.
The woman died yesterday and she suffered from a high temperature and difficulty breathing. The woman had a heart disease which led to further complications, Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Disease Control Centre told the media.
More than 140 cases of flu have been reported over the course of past four weeks, 95 per cent of the cases were swine flu influenza caused by a relatively new strain of influenza virus A.
Six deaths have been reported.
The virus is officially known as influenza virus A/H1N1.
The Georgian National Disease Control Centre says that is no epidemic of the swine flu in the country as the average admittance to medical institutions because of the symptoms of flu amounts to 221 individuals per 100,000 people.
Swine flu (H1N1) has caused one more death in Georgia.
About 63 cases of influenza have been reported in the last 3 weeks and 95% of them were H1N1, known as the swine flu, reports director of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze.
The Influenza season begins and Georgia’s health officials encourage people to better protect themselves, try to avoid crowded places and see a doctor in case their flu symptoms are severe.
Three people have died from Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and 12 further cases have been confirmed in Georgia, say experts.
Georgian Health Minister Davit Sergeenko says there is no risk of a swine flu epidemic in the country
The H1N1 virus has caused the death of eight people in Georgia this winter.
Parents of Georgian schoolchildren have requested the winter-spring school session commence later than scheduled to the spread of the acute respiratory illness H1N1, also known as the swine flu. A total of 158 cases of H1N1 have been reported in the country this winter – the illness has claimed ten lives.
Georgia will purchase double amount of anti-flu vaccines for 2019-2020 and this will be 80,000 vaccines instead of the 41,000 which were purchased for 2018-2019, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze has told Netgazeti.