37 transferred from Russian-occupied territories due to coronavirus
He noted that there will be no difference in the standards of care for Georgian citizens from any region of the country, be it from Tskhinvali region or Abkhazia. Photo: Emergency Situation Coordination and Urgent Assistance Centre.
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Thirty-seven people have been transferred from Russian-occupied territories onto Tbilisi-controlled territory due to the coronavirus.
Our position is clear and straight-forward – it does not matter on which side of the Enguri River an infected person lives. They are also our citizens and we have to take care of them,” said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia late yesterday.
Rukhi University Clinic in Zugdidi municipality in western Georgia is being used to treat patients from the Russian-occupied Abkhazia.
They are our citizens, citizens of Georgia.” said Gakharia.
He noted that there will be no difference in the standards of care for Georgian citizens from any region of the country, be it from Tskhinvali region or Abkhazia.
Georgia has reported four new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 130. One of the four new cases reported today is connected with Armenia, two cases with France and the source of the remaining one is being identified, Director of Tbilisi Hospital of Infections Diseases Marina Ezugbaia said earlier today.
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.
Construction of a multi-profile medical clinic has been completed in the village of Rukhi, located near the occupied region of Abkhazia.
A new high-profile hospital is earmarked to be built in western Georgia near the administrative border of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia, offering treatment to Georgian and Abkhazian citizens.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region confirmed its first case of the coronavirus yesterday. The de facto authorities of the region say that the infected individual is a 57-year-old man from Gagra who travelled to Russia. A 50-year-old woman from the region, who also travelled to Russia, is undergoing treatment on Tbilisi-controlled territory, after testing positive for the virus on March 30.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has reported two more cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of infected individuals to 12.
The de-facto government of the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has confirmed seven new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 35 in the region. RFE/RL reports that all the newly infected individuals are students of a Russian military academy who returned from Moscow to Abkhazia on June 2.