Health officials say rate of COVID-19 infection decreasing in Georgia
Director of the First University Clinic Levan Ratiani also stated yesterday that ‘this entire mess will end soon but we will have to continue living with this virus’. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgia has a total of 626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 297 recoveries and ten deaths, which the Head of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze says is ‘one of the best’ results in Europe.
Tsertsvadze notes the rate of coronavirus infection is currently decreasing in Georgia and says if citizens maintain social distancing there will be very little increase in cases in the coming days.
Director of the First University Clinic Levan Ratiani also stated yesterday that ‘this entire mess will end soon but we will have to continue living with this virus’.
However, Ratiani said that as the rate of coronavirus infection is decreasing in the country ‘everything will probably be very well soon’.
Tbilisi, which has been on coronavirus lockdown since April 15, will reopen on Monday, May 11. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
As of now, Georgia has evacuated 10,115 Georgian citizens from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.
More Georgians will be evacuated on:
- May 9 from Berlin
- May 12 from London
- May 15 from Amsterdam
- May 18 from Larnaca
- May 20 from Athens
- May 22 from Rome
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Meanwhile, the Georgian Interior Ministry has registered 69 new violations of the state of emergency regulations during the last 24 hours throughout the country.
- 55 individuals were fined for violating the curfew regulations;
- 2 individuals for violating rules of transportation and driving;
- 12 individuals were fined for public gathering and violating 2-meter distance.
The Interior Ministry calls on everyone to follow the regulations of the state of emergency, otherwise individuals will face a fine of 3,000 GEL, while legal entities will face a fine of 15,000 GEL.
Situation in occupied Abkhazia, Tskhinvali
Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have also confirmed some new cases of coronavirus.
Local media reported earlier today that two students from the Russian Federation have tested positive for COVID-19 in Abkhazia, reportedly increasing the number of total cases to nine.
Four more individuals have tested positive for the coronavirus in occupied Tskhinvali, so that the region now has 17 confirmed cases of the virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) sees many positive signs from different countries in the fight against the new coronavirus outbreak including Georgia, noted Catherine Smallwood, WHO's senior health emergency officer for Europe.
Georgia will participate in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) international clinical trial to help find an effective treatment for COVID-19, and will receive access to four experimental medicines used in the process, Deputy Health Minister of Georgia Tamar Gabunia told Rustavi 2 earlier today.
Georgian health officials say that Georgia’s statistics pertaining to the coronavirus are reliable, dismissing reports of several media outlets that the country is hiding its real figures.
Georgia ranks 109th worldwide and 50th in Europe in terms of the spread of COVID-19 and mortalities caused by the coronavirus, which is the one of the best results across the globe, head of Tbilisi Hospital of Infectious Diseases Tengiz Tsertsvadze said. Georgia has had 195 cases of the coronavirus since February 2020. 39 of the 195 have recovered. Two of the 195 have died of the virus so far, while two others were foreign citizens who left the country last month.
The number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 in Georgia has increased to 309 since yesterday. However, nine others have tested positive, increasing the total number of cases to 635. 72 of the infected individuals are health workers.
Georgia has reported three new cases of coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 638.317 of the 638 patients have recovered, while 10 others have died. As of today 311 individuals remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia. Tbilisi, which has been on coronavirus lockdown since April 15, reopened earlier today.All kinds of manufacturing operations have also resumed in Georgia today.
An eleventh individual, an 81-year old man, has died of coronavirus in Georgia today at Medalpha clinic in the Black Sea resort town of Batumi. This is the second patient to die of coronavirus at the Medalpha clinic. The first patient was the wife of the man who died today. Both of them were connected to the so-called 'Kobuleti cluster'.
32 recoveries, 1 new case
Just one individual has tested positive for coronavirus within the last 24 hours in Georgia, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 639, while 32 patients have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 349. In total 11 people have died of the virus in the country. 4,769 people are in 14-day quarantine and 414 are under observation in hospitals.
Head of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze says there are almost no new cases of community transmission of COVID-19 in Georgia. He earlier noted that the rate of coronavirus infection is currently decreasing in the country.
Georgia has reported five new cases of coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 647. 372 of the 647 patients have recovered, while 11 others have died. As of April 13, 264 individuals remain infected with COVID-19. Almost 32,000 people have been tested for COVID-19 in the country since February 2020. Head of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze said yesterday that there are almost no new cases of community transmission of COVID-19 in Georgia.
The number of individuals infected with coronavirus is increasing in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia Ketevan Tsikhelashvili said earlier today. As of now, 188 people have been brought from the occupied regions to Tbilisi-controlled territory amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Five more individuals have tested positive for the coronavirus in Georgia since this morning, increasing the number of total confirmed cases to 827. Head of Georgia’s National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze said the sources of infection in the five new cases is unknown so far.