PM Gakharia: in case of fever, shortness of breath, call 112 first
Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Vakhtang Gomelauri said that if the 112 service is overloaded due to coronavirus concerns, two additional buildings will house emergency call operators. Photo: Georgia’s Emergency and Operative Response Centre.
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Prime Minister Giorgi Gakhara has called on Georgian citizens to call 112 if they notice a fever or shortness of breathing.
The first thing you need to do is to call 112 (Georgia’s Emergency and Operative Response Centre) from any region of Georgia if you have any symptoms of coronavirus. If a citizen needs to be taken to a hospital, then he/she will be transferred to a regional so-called fever centre and will be 24 hours under the observation of medics. If the symptoms of coronavirus appear, the patient will be tested for coronavirus. If they have the virus, they will be transferred to a different hospital. Access to telemedicine services is very important for each citizen now”, said Gakharia.
PM Gkharia also mentioned that it’s not always necessary to be transferred to hospital and such cases are managed by family doctors and medics in rural areas quite well.
PM Gkharia said that it’s not always necessary to be transferred to hospital and such cases are managed by family doctors and medics in rural areas quite well. Photo: Georgian Government.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Vakhtang Gomelauri said that if the 112 service is overloaded due to coronavirus concerns, two additional buildings will house emergency call operators.
Georgia has confirmed six new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 214.
Of the 214, 50 have recovered, three with underlying chronic diseases have died.
As of today, Georgia has 159 active cases of the virus.
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The government of Georgia has presented an anti-crisis plan for Georgian businesses in order to ease the burden caused by the coronavirus crisis. The government responded to the demand of the hotels, restaurants, tourist agencies and tour operators in Georgia and decided to postpone payment of property and income tax by four months.
The Government Reserve Fund has allocated 1 million GEL ($358,358) to the Ministry of Health to respond to the challenge of the new coronavirus in Georgia. The Ministry of Finance has also been instructed to allocate additional financial resources to the Ministry of Health if necessary.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said that the healthcare system is ready to efficiently respond to the challenge of the coronavirus if it appears in Georgia.
3,271 individuals have been tested for COVID-19 in Georgia (as of April 7) since January 2020, while the country has had 208 cases so far. A handful of individuals have been tested several times and 3,457 tests have been used in total. In all the cases, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method, a gold-standard in epidemiology for detecting viral matter in blood samples, was used. The method takes just several hours to give results, but is highly accurate.
Yet another individual has recovered from the coronavirus in Georgia increasing the total number of recoveries to 51. As of now, the country has confirmed a total of 218 cases since February 26, including 162 infected individuals and three deaths.
Deputy Head of the National Disease Control Centre (NCDC) Paata Imnadze says that there are only three cases of coronavirus infection in Georgia for which the source has not been yet identified.