Coronavirus cases decrease to 5 in Georgia, two in 600 test positive for COVID-19 in Mestia
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Georgia has reported five new cases of the coronavirus earlier today.
Two of the five new patients are from the Lenjeri village of Mestia municipality which is on coronavirus lockdown, two new cases are imported (one is a truck driver), while the remaining one contracted the virus from an infected individual.
Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control says that only two of 600 individuals in Mestia have tested positive for the coronavirus over the past several hours.
Image: coronavirus live update.
More than 1,000 have been tested for the coronavirus in the municipality over the past two days.
We keep the coronavirus situation in Mestia under full control. Steps have been taken urgently to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the municipality and the situation is absolutely manageable,” head of the National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today.
Image: coronavirus live update.
Since February 26, 2020 Georgia has had 1,283 cases of the coronavirus.
1,068 of the 1,283 patients have recovered, while 17 others have died.
As of today 198 people remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia.
More than 258,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus around the country so far.
Georgia will wait for studies and communicate with partner organisations as Russia has registered the first coronavirus vaccine for use, claiming that the vaccine ‘gives sustainable immunity’ and is safe.
As of now, 751 tourists are in Georgia, while the number of business visitors since Georgia has opened its borders to several countries amounts to more than 4,000, said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia earlier today.
Georgian PrimeMinister Giorgi Gakharia has dismissed media reports that the government has plans to impose coronavirus restrictions in Kazbegi municipality of eastern Georgia, as seven border guards in Larsi checkpoint, at Russia-Georgia border, have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Mestia municipality in western Georgia, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country, has been placed on lockdown as 16 people have tested positive in the past two days in the municipality for the coronavirus. People will not be able to enter or leave the municipality without the police’s consent. Tourists who are now in the municipality will be placed under quarantine in hotels where they are currently located (if the hotels meet the recommendations of Georgia’s Health Ministry) or will be transported to other quarantine zones.
Georgia has reported 23 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today. Six of the 23 new patients are from Lenjeri village of Mestia municipality which is on lockdown. Eleven of the new patients contracted the virus from contact with infected individuals in the country, two new cases were imported (both are truck drivers), one new patient is a medical personnel, while the source of infection has not been identified in the remaining three cases. Since February 26, 2020 Georgia has had 1,306 cases of the coronavirus.