Georgian citizens in Portugal, Ukraine, Netherlands handed grocery vouchers in pandemic assistance
Thousands of vouchers are to be handed out to citizens finding themselves in difficult circumstances abroad. Photo via Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
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Foreign-based Georgian citizens who found themselves in difficult circumstances due to the global COVID-19 outbreak have received assistance from the Georgian government in the form of grocery vouchers.
In the Netherlands, Portugal and Ukraine, over a dozen individuals were handed vouchers as part of an ongoing joint programme by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and SPAR network of grocery stores.
In this latest round of providing support citizens outside the country, the foreign office and the store network provided the material help to two Portuguese-based families with infants and 13 individuals currently living in the Netherlands.
Several people displaced from the Donetsk district of eastern Ukraine were also selected for the vouchers, while more individuals in the district itself are expected to receive them in the coming days.
The programme is projected to involve a handout of up to 2,000 vouchers in 16 countries across the Europe as well as the United States. The coupons can be used in SPAR stores in respective states.
The Deputy Head of the National Centre for the Disease Control (NCDC), Paata Imnadze says that it will take about a year to return to the normal way of life after the restrictions amid the pandemic are lifted in the country.
Visa cardholders in Georgia will be able to use their expired cards for payments without interruptions during the coronavirus pandemic, announces Visa.
Farmers will be allowed to drive cars in the regions of Georgia between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. and between 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. starting today, wrote the Chairwoman of the Georgian Farmer's Association Nino Zambakhidze on her Facebook account.
As of April 20 the Georgian government has brought back 6,747 citizens from different coronavirus-hit areas since the COVID-19 outbreak began worldwide. During the same period Georgian diplomatic missions helped 9,058 Georgian citizens abroad.