Georgia reports 23 new cases of coronavirus, 17 recoveries
Georgia reported its first case of the coronavirus at the end of February 2020. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia has reported 23 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today.
Six of the 23 new patients are from Lenjeri village of Mustia municipality which is on lockdown.
Eleven of the new patients contracted the virus from 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.
Image: coronavirus live update.
Since February 26, 2020 Georgia has had 1,306 cases of the coronavirus.
1,085 of the 1,306 patients have recovered, while 17 others have died.
Image: coronavirus live update.
As of today 204 individuals remain infected with COVID-19 in the country.
More than 283,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the country so far.
Georgia has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 increasing the total number of infected individuals to 30. Meanwhile, the first individual who tested positive for COVID-19 back on February 26 after returning from Iran, has now tested negative, which means that s/he is getting well.
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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.
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.
The National Food Agency of Georgia is responding to the discovery of traces of the new coronavirus in cargoes of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil to China, saying that at this stage Georgia has not received any notification from international organisations regarding restrictions on chicken imports.
Individuals will have to spend 12 days instead of 14 in quarantine or self isolation in Georgia, according to a new decree which comes into play starting August 12.
The medical director of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Marina Ezugbaia told journalists today that nine infected individuals out of the 15 had travelled to Svaneti, four had contacts with infected individuals, one is a truck driver, while the source of infection for one individual has not yet been identified.
Fifteen people tested positive for coronavirus in Georgia since yesterday, increasing the number of total cases to 1336. Four individuals out of the 15 were infected in the Adjara region.