Seven new cases of coronavirus reported in Georgia, total number of cases stands at 195
As of today 152 people remain infected with the coronavirus in Georgia. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
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Georgia has reported seven new cases of the coronavirus today, bringing the total number of cases to 195.
Of the 195, 39 have recovered, while two have died.
As of now there are 152 active cases of the virus inside the country.
4,708 people are under quarantine in Georgia and 370 others are in hospitals.
The new cases are connected with the US, while three of the seven cases are cases of community transmission.
Director of Tbilisi Hospital of Infectious Diseases Marina Ezugbaia said that there are seven patients in critical condition in hospital and that most of them are elderly people.
The nationwide curfew came into effect on March 31 in Georgia. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
About 90 patients of the 188 have developed pneumonia.
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze says that as of today the country has enough resources to provide treatment for about 3,500 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, and another 5,000 can be placed under the supervision of trained medical personnel.
Tikaradze said that there are currently 700 ventilators in the country which is 'absolutely sufficient’ at the moment.
More than 1.3 million people have been infected with the virus worldwide as of April 6.
As for neighbouring countries Turkey has had 30,217 cases, Armenia 833 - cases, Azerbaijan - 641 cases and Russia - 6,343 cases.
Two more individuals have recovered from the new coronavirus in Georgia out of the 90 confirmed cases in the country, increasing the number of recovered individuals to sixteen.
Police have fined 3 individuals for violating self-isolation rules in Georgia’s western Imereti, Guria regions and in Eastern Mtskheta-Mtianeti region today.
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze has urged people, parishioners, to stay home and pray to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “As clerics frequently say and I also believe in this, God is omnipresent. We have the opportunity to stay home and pray and clerics will pray for us from churches”, Tikaradze said earlier today. Deputy Head of the National Disease Control Centre Paata Imnadze also urged parishioners to stay home and through doing so “protect the church and the whole country.”
The number of cases of coronavirus has reached 188 in Georgia as of the morning of April 6.36 of the 188 have recovered, while two elderly women, with several underlying health issues have died.148 people inside the country remain infected with the virus (two of the 188 were foreign citizens who left Georgia last month). 5,056 are under quarantine and 386 others are in hospitals.
The EU Delegation to Georgia and US Embassy have praised the efforts of Georgian health workers and others on World Health Day, which is marked today, expressing gratitude for their efforts in the fight against the coronavirus.
An online hackathon – a 'Coronathon' – that was organised to encourage the creation of new technologies that would be used in the fight against coronavirus has unveiled a winner – Georgian company Edison Tech with the idea of a portable ventilator.
All four checkpoints between Georgia and Azerbaijan will remain closed until April 20 per measures taken by Azerbaijan to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported earlier today.
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.