No new cases of coronavirus in Georgia, 11 test negative
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No new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Georgia, with 11 patients who have recently come back from countries experiencing an outbreak of the new coronavirus testing negative, head of the Tbilisi Hospital of Infectious Diseases Marina Ezugbaia stated earlier today.
She said that the only man having the coronavirus in Georgia feels good and needs no special treatment.
He has a mild form of the virus,” she said.
Ezugbaia stated that as of now 28 patients remain at hospital with the symptoms of flu.
Analyses of nine patients of the 28 have been sent to the Lugar Lab to be checked for the new coronavirus.
Georgia confirmed its first case of coronavirus on February 26.
A 50-year-old Georgian citizen, who travelled in Iran and came back to the Georgian border via Azerbaijan by taxi, tested positive for the virus.
Georgia, which paused flights with Iran earlier this month, also imposed restrictions for road travel with the country as soon as virus was confirmed.
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will reduce the number of flights to several destinations in Italy, including from Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport, due to a decrease in demand for flights as the coronavirus spread in Italy.
The Russian-controlled Tskhinvali authorities have announced the closure of the last, Kartsmani crossing point in Sachkhere municipality, connecting the region with the rest of Georgia ‘to prevent the spread of coronavirus.’
The Georgian government has issued a new decree to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus Covid-19, making amendments in the January 28 decree following the confirmation of the first case of the coronavirus in the country yesterday. The decree instructs various state agencies to present their action plans against the spread of the respiratory infection and their budgets by March 1, 2020.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has responded to the detection of the first case of the new, China-born coronavirus Covid-19 in Georgia, stating that ‘there is no reason to panic, as the government is in absolute control of the situation.’ “We have no reason to panic. The Health Ministry, all responsible agencies and the inter-agency council [created to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the country] are in total control of the situation,” Gakharia said.
Russia will send mobile brigades to Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region ‘to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus’.
Georgia has confirmed the second case of the new, China-born coronavirus Covid-19. The infected individual is a Georgian citizen who had been traveling to Italy, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today. He said that as of now 29 patients remain at the Tbilisi Hospital of Infections Diseases with samples taken of 24 of them. The individuals had travelled in countries who are experiencing the outbreak of the respiratory infection.
Eight, who are quarantined in Tbilisi Hospital of Infections Diseases given their recent travel activity to Iran or Italy or contact with people who recently returned from these countries, have tested negative for the new, China-born Covid-19 virus. As of now 19 individuals remain in hospital, with only three cases of coronavirus detection.