Thirteen employees of Georgian Interior Ministry have tested positive for the coronavirus over the past 24 hours. Ten of the 13 new cases were from the country’s coastal Adjara region.
The remaining two infected employees of the ministry are from Tbilisi and one from Samegrelo region of western Georgia.
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Within the last 24 hours, #Covid19 was laboratory confirmed to 13 employees from various departments of MIA
— MIA of Georgia (@MIAofGeorgia) September 21, 2020
Personnel in the relevant sub-units with whom the infected persons had contact, were transferred under observation & tested.
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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.
Georgia has had 3,635 cases of the coronavirus so far.
1,534 of the 3,635 patients have recovered, while 20 others have died.
As of today 2,142 individuals remain infected with COVID-19 in the country.