Two schoolchildren in Khaishi, Mestia municipality test positive for coronavirus

Two schoolchildren in the village of Khaishi, in the Mestia municipality of Georgia have tested positive for coronavirus. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 23 Sep 2020 - 17:04, Tbilisi,Georgia

Two schoolchildren in the village of Khaishi, in the Mestia municipality of Georgia have tested positive for coronavirus, says acting State Representative in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Malkhaz Toria.

He explained that the schoolchildren had contracted the virus from a temporarily invited teacher from Kobuleti, Adjara region who was diagnosed with the coronavirus after returning to Kobuleti.

Toria said that the school in Khaishi will move to a distance learning regime and all its employees as well as students will be tested for Covid-19.

Toria said that in total 728 coronavirus tests were taken in the Samegrelo region and 17 of them yield positive test results for the virus. In addition to the schoolchildren there is another individual infected with coronavirus who moved from the Georgian occupied region of Abkhazia to the rest of Georgia and 14 residents of Zugdidi, including three employees of Zugdidi City Hall.

The school year started on September 15 at Khaishi school like everywhere in Georgia except for big cities where in-person studies for school pupils and university students have been postponed until October 1. 

In addition, schools and universities will reopen on October 1 instead of September 15 in Georgia’s Black Sea cities of Batumi and Kobuleti due to the increased number of coronavirus cases there.

Georgia has reported 227 new cases of the coronavirus earlier today, which is a new record in the number since the country confirmed its first case of the virus on February 26, 2020. 

A 25th patient has died of coronavirus in the country which is the second death in the past 24 hours.