Oasis hotel in Chakvi, Adjara on temporary lockdown as one tests positive at doctors' conference
Minister Tikaradze has called on everyone to maintain social distancing and wear protective face masks to prevent the possible spread of the virus. Photo: Dreamland Oasis Chakvi
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Dreamland Oasis Chakvi hotel in Adjara region will be placed on temporary lockdown as a doctor attending a conference along with 400 other doctors has tested positive for coronavirus.
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze said an epidemiological survey is underway at the hotel and other doctors will either be sent to quarantine or self-isolation.
Georgia reported 38 new coronavirus cases earlier this morning, including 22 people in Batumi, another tourist destination in Adjara region.
Therefore, Minister Tikaradze has called on everyone travelling home from the region to go into self-isolation and call 112 in case of any suspicious symptoms.
She also asked the citizens to maintain social distancing and wear protective face masks to prevent the possible spread of the virus.
Meanwhile, additional tents have been set up at Batumi Boulevard, providing voluntary coronavirus testing.
The Georgian government’s key goal today is to manage the coronavirus pandemic with minimal risks as a new academic year is around the corner which will further increase mobility, especially in big cities, Georgian PM Gakharia said earlier today.
Once a vaccine for the coronavirus is approved, it will be available to the Georgian population, at first primarily to risk groups, said Head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze earlier today.
Despite the micro-epidemic in the Georgian Black Sea resort city of Batumi, where 22 new cases of coronavirus have been reported during the last 24 hours, the city will not be put under lockdown.
The quarantine restrictions have been lifted today in the Mestia municipality in western Georgia, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country, which was under lockdown after 17 people tested positive for the coronavirus on August 10.
Two employees of Nikora supermarket at Vazha-Pshavela Avenue close to Medical University metro station as well as five employees of Zgapari supermarket at Rustavi Highway have been infected with COVID-19 in Georgia.
Georgia has confirmed 25 new cases of COVID-19, increasing the number of total confirmed cases to 1625 over the last 24 hours. Marina Endeladze, representative of Tbilisi Hospital of Infections Diseases said nine new patients contracted the virus from the candy shop Dona cluster in Georgia's Black Sea town of Batumi.