Abkhazia’s sole laboratory doesn’t have capacity to test all cases
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. Photo: cominf.org.
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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.
I told the president and the government to increase the capacity of the laboratory in order to handle 500 samples a day. A large number of samples has been collected which cannot be processed due to the insufficient number of employees in the laboratory. There are only three full-time employees'', said Skorik.
Skoris also noted that due to the increased cases of COVID-19, mass indoor entertainment events should be banned. She also said that older teachers at schools should be temporarily replaced with younger staff.
Abkhazia has reported 30 new cases of coronavirus earlier today.
A seventh individual died of the virus in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia on September 15.
Since early April of 2020, Abkhazia has had 756 cases of the coronavirus, of which 198 individuals have 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’.
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 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.