Seroprevalence study on coronavirus to be conducted in four municipalities in Georgia
The four municipalities will be Kobuleti, Khelvachauri, Martvili and Borjomi. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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A seroprevalence study will be conducted in four municipalities in Georgia to examine the presence of Covid-19 in the country and determine whether residents of the municipalities have been infected with the virus in recent months but went below the radar of the healthcare system or were asymptomatic.
The four municipalities will be Kobuleti, Khelvachauri, Martvili and Borjomi.
Researchers will take blood samples from 1,200 people and determine whether they have immunoglobulin G, the presence of which confirms that they have already had the virus.
A similar study was conducted in Telavi, in the eastern province of Kakheti and in Bolnisi municipality two months ago. No cases of the coronavirus were reported in Telavi.
10 out of 1,068 residents have coronavirus antibodies
A total of 1,068 residents of the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi took part in a research conducted by Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital and 10 residents were found to have coronavirus antibodies, reports Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital.
Six of 1,000 Tbilisi residents were found to have coronavirus antibodies, head of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Tengiz Tsertsvadze said earlier today.
Out of 500 COVID-19 infected individuals in Georgia, 83 displayed no symptoms at the time of PCR testing, reads the latest report of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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.
Ambassador of Georgia to the UN Office in Geneva Alexandre Maisuradze and Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have discussed the current coronavirus situation in Georgia and the measures taken by the Georgian government in response to the coronavirus crisis at today's meeting, announces the Georgian Foreign Ministry.