How the private sector is helping fight coronavirus in Georgia
Among the 25 infected, one is a 12-year-old, who suffers from a mild form of the virus. Photo: Company Ujapo/Facebook.
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The amount of people under quarantine and self-isolation is increasing day by day due to the widespread new coronavirus, Covid-19, in the country, while the private sector is responding with various types of supportive activities, expressing public responsibility in defeating the virus.
The Cartu Foundation, founded by the ruling Georgian Dream party chairman and leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, has announced earlier today that the company will provide financial assistance to the state if need arises in order to protect Georgian citizens from the danger of the virus spreading.
The Georgian Football Federation has also expressed its readiness and has allocated ($33,905) 100,000 GEL to support the fight against the new coronavirus – Covid-19 in Georgia.
We are also ready to arrange a new quarantine zone in the hotel of the federation. We feel the importance of unity and public responsibility in defeating this challenge together”, reads the statement of the Federation published on its official website.
Georgian company Ujapo provided patients with various products at Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital. Photo: Ujapo/Facebook.
Georgian mineral water company Borjomi, dry fruits producing company Chikori and the company Ujapo have provided patients and individuals under quarantine with their products today, expressing their gratitude to Georgian medics for their hard work.
Mineral water company Borjomi expressed its gratitude to Georgian medics for their hard work. Photo: Borjomi/Facebook.
Food delivery company Wolt has added ‘contactless’ delivery to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
As you know, Wolt has an electronic payment service, which means that all customers, including people under self-isolation and quarantine, can use the contactless delivery feature. Couriers will be able to avoid handing over cash”, reads the statement of Wolt.
Evex Medical Corporation has created a mobile team of family physicians who will visit companies on-site and provide employees with necessary medical assistance if needed.
The Chinese company Hualing Group donated complete biological safety kits to the State Medical Holding on March 6.
Hualing Group wishes to contribute to these preventive activities. Within the scope of company`s social responsibility, Hualing Group has donated 500 complete biological safety kits to The State Medical Holding",
As of now, 295 individuals are under quarantine in Georgia, while 49 remain at hospitals due to suspicious symptoms.
Among the 25 infected, one is a 12-year-old, who suffers from a mild form of the virus.
Starting today Georgia will close borders with neighbouring Armenia and Azerbaijan for ten days to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia discussed the temporary suspension of movement with Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan PM Ali Asadov in telephone conversations yesterday.
Georgia has confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 increasing the total number of infected individuals to 30. Meanwhile, the first individual who tested positive for COVID-19 back on February 26 after returning from Iran, has now tested negative, which means that s/he is getting well.
Travellers from Switzerland, Norway and Denmark will have to present a PCR test for the coronavirus while arriving in Georgia, otherwise they will be placed under mandatory 14-day quarantine. Earlier Georgia introduced the same rules for travellers from China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Austria.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said at a meeting with the heads of local grocery chains that the population should not face any shortage of household products amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Several days ago, 63-year-old farmer Kako Jeiranashvil from Georgia’s Eastern Kakheti region thought that thousands of the tulips he had planned to sell at the Navtlugi Market in Tbilisi, were doomed to die. As a result of the nationwide curfew amid the coronavirus outbreak, Jeiranashvili could not bring his tulips to the capital.
The Prague Civil Society Centre has written about Georgian practices in the effort to combat the new coronavirus. The centre highlights several aspects of Georgia’s work to mitigate the social impact of the pandemic.
A total of 10,000 GEL has been collected via a social media campaign in two days for a 73-year old man who was fined by police in Georgia’s Eastern town of Telavi for selling tulips on Palm Sunday, April 12.
Women look after potato plantation of infected family in Marneuli
Women living in the village of Maradisi in Marneuli municipality of Georgia have teamed up to help their neighbour who has contracted COVID-19 and has been unable to tend her potato plantation this year. Obeying social distancing rules, the women have weeded the plot, in order not to leave the family without a source of income.
Eleven-year-old Aleksandre Tsotskolauri lives in the village of Khevischala in eastern Akhmeta municipality. Since the coronavirus pandemic has hit Georgia and schools have switched to remote studies, Aleksandre has to join his online classes from a hut far from his home, as it is the only place in the village where he can get an internet signal.