Seven transferred from Abkhazia after contact with infected woman
Samples have been taken and sent to the laboratory from a middle-aged man from Abkhazia who was transferred to the Zugdidi hospital yesterday. This man has not been in contact with the infected woman from Abkhazia. Photo: eptalaboratories.com.
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Seven people have been transferred from the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region of Georgia onto Tbilisi-controlled territory after they came into contact with a woman who was also recently transferred from Abkhazia to Zugdidi in western Georgia and tested positive for the new coronavirus.
These seven people have been transferred at night and placed under quarantine in the seaside town of Anaklia where there are 81 people under quarantine in total,” Governor of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Alexandre Motserelia commented.
Meanwhile, there are seven other people in the Zugdidi Infectious Disease Hospital out of which two of them have tested positive for the Covid-19. One of them is a 67-year-old man from the village of Zeda Etseri, Zugdidi municipality and the second is a woman, aged 50, from Abkhazia.
Samples have been taken and sent to the laboratory from a middle-aged man from Abkhazia who was transferred to the Zugdidi hospital yesterday. This man has not been in contact with the infected woman from Abkhazia.
The remaining four patients in the Zugdidi Infectious Disease Hospital are family members, parents and two children who don’t have the symptoms of the coronavirus but are under the supervision of doctors.
As of now, there are 224 persons under the self-isolation in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
A 50-year-old woman, who was transferred from the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region into Tbilisi-controlled territory late on March 29, has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Georgia has created additional quarantine facilities in the Samegrelo - Zemo Svaneti region to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The new quarantine facilities have been erected in the coastal town of Anaklia and the highland town of Mestia, said Governor of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Alexandre Motserelia.
24 ‘online clinics’ are ready to provide services to patients with fever and respiratory symptoms, said Deputy Minister of Health Tamar Gabunia earlier today. The online clinics are call-centres where patients can be given consultation by doctors.
Georgian Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says that the two Russian-occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali face the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 as people have moved freely between the regions and Russia over the past several weeks.
Thirty-seven people have been transferred from Russian-occupied territories onto Tbilisi-controlled territory due to the coronavirus.