Georgia hits record high of 196 coronavirus cases in one day
A total of 3,502 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Georgia since late February, including 1,494 recoveries and 19 deaths. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
Tweet 
Share
A new record high of 196 coronavirus cases has been confirmed in Georgia since yesterday. 13 patients have recovered.
As of now a total of 3,502 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Georgia since late February, including 1,494 recoveries and 19 deaths.
The medical director of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Marina Ezugbaia said earlier today that out of the 196 new cases:
- 30 were reported in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi
- 128 were reported in the region of Adjara
- 19 were reported in the region of Imereti
- 6 were reported in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
- 5 were reported in the region of Kvemo Kartli
- 4 were reported in the region of Guria
- 2 were reported in the region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti
- 1 was reported in the region of Shida Kartli
- 1 was reported in the region of Kakheti
Ezugbaia also noted that conditions of 14 infected individuals remains critical, including a 72-year-old man who was delivered to Batumi hospital yesterday with underlying diseases.
Meanwhile, occupied Abkhazia has also confirmed 53 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, increasing the total number of cases in the Russia-occupied region to 878.
An independent MP of Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) Jaba Jushkariani who is a member of opposition Our Georgia – Solidarity Alliance has also tested positive for coronavirus.
Jishkariani is the third member of the alliance after Levan Gogichaishvili and Gedevan Popkhadze who tested positive for COVID-19 over a week before.
Other members of the alliance have gone in self-isolation.
Georgia has reported 196 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, the highest figure since the country confirmed its first case of COVID-19 at the end of February.145 of the 196 new patients are from the Adjara region of western Georgia. As of today 1,327 individuals remain infected with COVID-19 in the country. Despite the recent surge in the infections, the country has no plans to declare a nationwide lockdown. More than 490,000 people have been tested for the coronavirus in Georgia so far.
Opposition Our Georgia – Solidarity Alliance member Gedevan Popkhadze has tested positive for coronavirus. The independent MP is one of six former ruling Georgian Dream party members who established an alliance back in June.
Independent MP Levan Gogichaishvili and his wife, TV Pirveli journalist Vika Bukia, have tested positive for the coronavirus today.
All foreigners entering Georgia, including from Germany, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia to which Georgia has opened borders unconditionally, will be required to present PCR test results from the proceeding 72 hours as of September 15, announced Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has announced that 11 of its employees in various departments have tested positive for the coronavirus. The ministry also noted that all of them were delivered to hospitals for further treatment.
Georgia has reported 193 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today and announced the death of a 20th patient since the country confirmed its first case of the coronavirus at the end of February 2020. The 60-year-old woman who has died of the virus was earlier transported from Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region in critical condition. A public school in Senaki, in the Samegrelo region of western Georgia, has had to switch to remote learning as a teacher and two pupils have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Imereti region in west Georgia has reported 53 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, most of which are related to shopping centre ‘Okros birja’, where five employees were confirmed infected on September 18.