Swine flu death toll reaches 17 in Georgia
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Seventeen 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 48-year-old man died in Gorii, eastern Georgia.
Health officials stated that the man also had Hepatitis C.
The Health Ministry also confirmed that a nine-month-old infant, who died last week, was also infected with the virus.
The infant was ill with measles at the time, together with the flu.
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 image to take a bigger view.
The Georgian Health Ministry says that the number of flu cases has decreased these days and repeated that there is no risk of epidemic as for now the rate of infection is 253 cases per 100,000 residents.
Studies at Georgian public schools and kindergartens have been postponed until 21 January due to the spread of the flu.
The Georgian government has made anti-flu medication Tamiflu free of charge for Georgian citizens if it is prescribed by a doctor and decided to cover the expenses of emergency medical treatment for all patients with flu.
13,000 packages of Tamiflu were imported to Georgia on 12 January. The Health Ministry says that the country will also purchase anti-flu vaccines as there is a lack of vaccines in the country given that more people than expected decided to have them selves vaccinated.
A woman who delivered via C-section birth a week ago has died allegedly due to the H1N1 flu.
Studies at Georgian public schools and kindergartens have been postponed until January 21 due to the spread of flu. Up to 640 people are being treated in the country's hospitals for the virus, 39 of them are receiving critical care. According to official data 10 have lost their lives to the swine flu.
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.
Georgian Health Minister Davit Sergeenko says there is no risk of a swine flu epidemic in the country
Eighteen people have died because of the swine flu (H1N1) in Georgia this winter, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre says.
Head of the Georgian National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today that there is a ‘low chance” that a new strain of a coronavirus which has killed nine in China may reach Georgia.
Georgia has plans to evacuate at least five of its citizens from Wuhan, Hubei province of China - the epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus, and ‘temporary suspend’ direct flights from the country as the death toll in China already stands at 106. Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze says that a special meeting will take place later today to decide how to evacuate the Georgian citizens from Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, which is now in a lockdown with strict transport restrictions in and out of the area.