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Restaurants to close in Adjara at 22 p.m., public transport to be suspended

Adjara tops the coronavirus-hit regions of Georgia, where 164 coronavirus cases were registered out of a total 259 new cases of coronavirus today. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 24 Sep 2020 - 15:00, Tbilisi,Georgia

Restaurants will close in the Adjara region of Georgia starting at 22 p.m., and public transport will be completely stopped, announces the head of the government administration Natia Mezvrishvili.

Adjara tops the coronavirus-hit regions of Georgia, where 164 coronavirus cases were registered out of a total 259 new cases of coronavirus today.

The new cases were also recorded in:

Adjara region - 164 cases
Tbilisi - 43 cases
Imereti - 22 cases (15 in Kutaisi, 3 in Tskaltubo, 2 in Baghdati, one in Terjola and one in Sachkhere)
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti - 15 cases
Gori - 1 case
Marneuli - 1 case
Mtskheta - 1 case
Imported - 5 cases

Georgia has had 4,399 cases of the coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 1,705 of the 4,399 have recovered, while 25 have died.

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