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Tbilisi State University student tests positive for COVID-19

A student of Georgia’s Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) has been tested positive for COVID-19. Photo: shutterstock.

Agenda.ge, 17 Sep 2020 - 18:03, Tbilisi,Georgia

A student of Georgia’s Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) has tested positive for COVID-19, reports IPN.

The health condition of the student is satisfactory. TSU is not the source of his infection, as studies have been carried out remotely. The student had no contact with lecturers and other students. Disinfection procedures were carried out in TSU Bagebi dormitory yesterday, where the infected individual lives”, reports TSU.

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