Russia to send mobile brigades to occupied Abkhazia to ‘prevent coronavirus’
De facto Abkhazia has banned all foreigners except Russians from entering the region. Photo: 1TV.
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Russia will send mobile brigades to Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region ‘to prevent the spread of the new, China-born coronavirus’.
Local media reports that the ‘sanitary-epidemic brigades’ will come to the region by special vehicles in the coming days to provide medicines, protective materials and diagnostic services.
De facto Abkhazia announced yesterday that it is barring entry 'to all foreigners except Russians', including the only crossing point connecting the region with the rest of Georgia, to prevent the spread of the respiratory infection.
Georgia has one confirmed case of the new coronavirus - Covid-19 as of now, while Russia has two such cases.
Another Russian occupied Tskhinvali region also closed all crossing points with the rest of Georgia ‘due to virus-related fears.’
No new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Georgia, with 11 patients who have recently come back from countries experiencing an outbreak of the new coronavirus testing negative, head of the Tbilisi Hospital of Infectious Diseases Marina Ezugbaia stated earlier today.She said that the only man having the coronavirus in Georgia feels good and needs no special treatment.
Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will reduce the number of flights to several destinations in Italy, including from Georgia’s Kutaisi International Airport, due to a decrease in demand for flights as the coronavirus spread in Italy.
The Russian controlled Abkhazia region has announced it is barring entry 'to all foreigners except Russians', including the only crossing point connecting the region with the rest of Georgia because of the new, China-born coronavirus.
Georgia’s tourism sector will lose about 30 million GEL per month (about $10.79m/€9.93m) following the coronavirus ban on travel from China and Iran, announces Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava.
Georgia has confirmed the second case of the new, China-born coronavirus Covid-19. The infected individual is a Georgian citizen who had been traveling to Italy, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today. He said that as of now 29 patients remain at the Tbilisi Hospital of Infections Diseases with samples taken of 24 of them. The individuals had travelled in countries who are experiencing the outbreak of the respiratory infection.
Head of the National Disease Control Centre (NCDC) has urged media outlets to refrain from ‘making a political scene’ and ‘inappropriately insulting medics’ regarding the coronavirus situation in the country ‘as the issue is not political.'He stated that Mtavari Arkhi and its founder Nika Gvaramia have made ‘ungrounded accusations’ against the NCDC and responsible state agencies, blaming them of ‘being unprepared for the virus and being intransparent.’
State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has urged the residents of the Russia-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions to follow recommendations of the World Health Organization, saying that the Georgian government is ready help them prevent the spread of COVID-19 if the need arises.
The International Crisis Group has published a report on the COVID-19 challenges in six ‘post-Soviet breakaway statelets’, including in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has reported two more cases of the coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of infected individuals to 12.
The Russian-controlled Abkhazia region has opened the only crossing point on Enguri Bridge earlier today for people who were undergoing treatment for COVID-19 and other diseases on Tbilisi-controlled territory.
The de-facto government of the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region has confirmed seven new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 35 in the region. RFE/RL reports that all the newly infected individuals are students of a Russian military academy who returned from Moscow to Abkhazia on June 2.
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.
Since March about 1,000 people have entered Tbilisi-controlled territory from Georgia’s occupied regions, of which 316 were patients that were brought to hospitals for different diagnoses, says the State Ministry for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia.
A 52-year-old man has died of coronavirus in the village of Labra in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region. This is the fourth person who has died of the virus in the region.
Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region has placed the village of Labra under a 14-day quarantine amid a coronavirus outbreak. The region’s de facto health ministry announced earlier today that a total of five coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the village in recent days, including one death.
Twenty-four more employees of the Enguri dam have tested positive for the coronavirus earlier today after four of them tested positive for the virus yesterday.
A seventh person has died of coronavirus in Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia region, reports the de-facto Ministry of Health of Abkhazia.
An additional six coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the village of Saberio, in Gali municipality of occupied Abkhazia.
The chief sanitary doctor of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia Lyudmila Skorik says that the region’s only laboratory does not have the capacity to detect all new cases of COVID-19 in the region, reports RFE/RL.
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.