Adjara TV temporarily suspends broadcasting as one tests positive for coronavirus
All the employees of the TV and radio broadcaster will be tested for COVID-19. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Adjara TV, a Batumi-based regional public television channel, has temporarily suspended it broadcast as one of its employees has tested positive for coronavirus today.
All of the 340 employees of Adjara TV and radio broadcaster will be tested to avoid the further spread of the virus.
Reportedly, the infected employee tested positive at the tent that was set up at the Batumi Boulevard.
The Head of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze said 8000 people have been tested in Kobuleti and Batumi in Adjara region during the last week.
Gamkrelidze also noted that a total of 35 individuals have contracted the virus from the candy shop Dona cluster in Batumi.
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.
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.
Tents will be set up on the Batumi Boulevard where tourists and locals will be able to undergo voluntary coronavirus testing, announces Head of the National Disease Control Centre (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze.
Georgia has confirmed 29 new coronavirus cases and eight recoveries over the last 24 hours. As of now a total of 1650 cases have been confirmed in the country since late February, while the number of recoveries stands at 1310.
Georgia has reported 34 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today. Six new patients contracted the virus from the cluster of candy shop Dona in Georgia's Black Sea resort town of Batumi, 15 from contact from infected individuals, eight patients have travelled in Adjara region, one is a medical worker, two cases are ‘imported’ and the source of infections has not been identified in the remaining two cases.
Schools and universities will reopen on October 1 instead of September 15 in Georgia’s Black Sea cities of Batumi and Kobuleti, as 20 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Batumi today, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced.
A total of four night clubs located in Batumi - Soho, Sector 26, Conte bar and UP2U - have been closed down and fined for violating coronavirus-related safety norms. Only Iveria Beach club has satisfied the coronavirus-related requirements of safety.