Total number of coronavirus cases in Russian-occupied Abkhazia climbs to 35
Georgia's Russian-occupied Abkhazia confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on April 7, 2020. Photo: shutterstock.
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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.
The de-facto government reports that 27 of 35 patients have already recovered, while one has died.
The majority of coronavirus-infected individuals are students of Russian military academies.
The de-facto government of Georgia’s Russian occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) also reports that the majority of infected patients in the region are students of various Russian military academies.
Russian-occupied Abkhazia confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on April 7, 2020.
Russia will send mobile brigades to Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region ‘to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus’.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has reported four new cases of coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases in the region to 25. Local media outlets report that the new patients are students of a Russian military academy who were already placed under quarantine in Abkhazia before testing positive.
Thirty-seven people have been transferred from Russian-occupied territories onto Tbilisi-controlled territory due to the coronavirus.
Georgian Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says that the two Russian-occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali face the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 as people have moved freely between the regions and Russia over the past several weeks.
The Embassy of Russia in the occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia has urged its citizens to use face masks and gloves, and to maintain social distance in public spaces due to the worsening COVID-19 epidemic situation in the region.