Russia to send doctors to occupied Abkhazia to help in the fight against coronavirus
Apsnypress reports that the Health Ministry of Russia has asked the Bashkir doctors to arrive in the occupied Abkhazia region. The medics will stay there for 21 days. Photo: abkhazianform.com
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Doctors from the Republic of Bashkiria (a federal subject of Russia) will help doctors in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region to treat COVID-19 patients, reports apsnypress, the de-facto state press of Abkhazia.
Apsnypress reports that the Health Ministry of Russia has asked the Bashkir doctors to arrive in the occupied Abkhazia region. The medics will stay there for 21 days.
Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia confirmed 46 new cases of coronavirus on September 27.
The de-facto ministry of health says that as of now 117 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 are being treated at Gudauta Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The health condition of 14 patients is critical.
Since April 7 Abkhazia has had 1,332 cases of coronavirus, out of which 400 patients have already recovered.
Nine individuals have died of the virus in the region.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region confirmed its first case of the coronavirus yesterday. The de facto authorities of the region say that the infected individual is a 57-year-old man from Gagra who travelled to Russia. A 50-year-old woman from the region, who also travelled to Russia, is undergoing treatment on Tbilisi-controlled territory, after testing positive for the virus on March 30.
A new hospital has opened in the village of Rukhi located about a kilometre from Enguri Bridge, which connects Russia-occupied Abkhazia with the rest of Georgia. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said the new hospital will offer qualitative care to people living on both sides of the occupation line.
The Embassy of Russia in the occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia has urged its citizens to use face masks and gloves, and to maintain social distance in public spaces due to the worsening COVID-19 epidemic situation in the region.
Russia will send mobile brigades to Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region ‘to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus’.