Health officials: Georgia has valid statistics of COVID-19, otherwise our hospitals will be overcrowded
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Georgian health officials say that Georgia’s statistics pertaining to the coronavirus are reliable, dismissing reports of several media outlets that the country is hiding its real figures.
Director of Tbilisi hospital of Infectious Diseases Marina Ezugbaia said that if the country were releasing false figures, the situation in hospitals and the number of people suffering from pneumonia ‘would have revealed the lie.’
This is a victory of the country. Have no doubt about the statistics. The hiding of real statistics will never stop the increase of infected people or the problems related to the issue. Just look at the situation in Europe or in many other countries,” Ezugbaia said.
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As of April 26, 11,502 people have been tested for COVID-19 in Georgia. Photo: NCDC.
She stated that Georgia ‘perfectly coped with’ the containment period of the virus which began on February 1, 2020 and took the ‘absolutely right steps’ to prevent the further spread of the virus after the government reported the community transmission of the virus in late March.
She said that aggressive testing detected 25 new cases of the coronavirus yesterday, triggering speculations that the relatively low number of reported cases in the country is related to the ‘lack of aggressive testing of people.’
We tested many people and had only 25 cases which is very good,” Ezugbaia said.
Coronavirus cases in Georgia according to age and gender. Blue columns stand for women, orange - for men. Photo: NCDC.
She said that aggressive testing is used in specific situations, when there are clusters and risk groups, like medical personnel, which require aggressive testing.
As of April 27 the number of coronavirus cases stands at 496. 149 people of the 496 have recovered, while six others have died.
339 people remain infected with the virus inside the country.
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The number of coronavirus cases stands at 496 in Georgia as of today. 149 people of the 496 have recovered, while six others have died. As of April 27, 339 people remain infected with the virus inside the country. 4,833 people are under quarantine and 571 others are in hospitals. The town of Tetritskaro in Kvemo Kartli was placed on lockdown yesterday, after a number of local residents tested positive for coronavirus.
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.
Georgia has reported 14 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 511. 156 of the 511 people have recovered, while six others have died. As of today 347 people remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia. 5,085 people are under quarantine and 558 others in hospitals. Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze stated yesterday that Georgia is hitting the peak of spreading the virus and no serious increase in COVID-19 cases is expected in the coming weeks.
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Georgia has reported 6 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 517. Two of the six new patients do not know how they contracted the virus.. 168 of the 517 people have recovered, while six others have died. As of today 341 people remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia. 5,153 people are under quarantine and 549 others in hospitals.
Georgia has reported 6 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 517. Two of the six new patients do not know how they contracted the virus.. 168 of the 517 people have recovered, while six others have died. As of today 341 people remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia. 5,153 people are under quarantine and 549 others in hospitals.
Georgia will receive an additional 40,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests from China tomorrow, Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze has announced.
Georgia received 40,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests from China earlier today, which the country had bought and an additional 20,000 rapid antibody tests as a gift from the Chinese government.
Georgia has a total of 626 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 297 recoveries and ten deaths, which the Head of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze says is ‘one of the best’ results in Europe. Director of the First University Clinic Levan Ratiani also stated yesterday that ‘this entire mess will end soon but we will have to continue living with this virus’.
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