52-year-old man dies of coronavirus in Russian-occupied Abkhazia
As of today, a total of 247 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in occupied Abkhazia, out of which 101 have already recovered.
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A 52-year-old man has died of coronavirus in the village of Labra in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region. This is the fourth person who has died of the virus in the region.
The de-facto Ministry of Health of Abkhazia said the man had a high fever for nearly two weeks and was treating himself with fever-reducing medications. The man called an ambulance on August 23 after his health condition worsened, but unfortunately he has died.
Locals of the village of Labra are being tested for the coronavirus.
As of today, a total of 247 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in occupied Abkhazia, out of which 101 have already recovered.
A new hospital has opened in the village of Rukhi located about a kilometre from Enguri Bridge, which connects Russia-occupied Abkhazia with the rest of Georgia. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said the new hospital will offer qualitative care to people living on both sides of the occupation line.
Russia will send mobile brigades to Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region ‘to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus’.
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.
The de facto government of Georgia’s Russian occupied Abkhazia region has closed the only crossing point with the rest of Georgia earlier today, after opening it on May 26 to allow back in individuals who had undergone treatment on the Tbilisi controlled territory.
Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region has placed the village of Labra under a 14-day quarantine amid a coronavirus outbreak. The region’s de facto health ministry announced earlier today that a total of five coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the village in recent days, including one death.
Abkhaz Orthodox Church has refused to accept an icon donated by Irma Inashvili, the leader of the Georgian opposition Alliance of Patriots party.
Lasha Sakania, the ‘advisor’ to the de facto leader of the Russia-occuied Abkhazia region of Georgia, has resigned amid controversies over his recent meeting with the opposition party the Alliance of Patriots of Georgia.
Seven more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Georgia increasing the total number of confirmed cases to 1469. With the recent 25 recoveries the number of recovered individuals now stands at 1221.
A seventh person has died of coronavirus in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region, reports the de-facto Ministry of Health of Abkhazia.
The chief sanitary doctor of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia Lyudmila Skorik says that the region’s only laboratory does not have the capacity to detect all new cases of COVID-19 in the region, reports RFE/RL.