Medics to advise Georgian citizens abroad about COVID-19 via Facebook live
Georgian citizens abroad will be able ask questions to Georgian medics via Facebook live daily starting today. Photo: pexels.com.
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Georgian citizens living abroad will be able to consult Georgian specialists about the new coronavirus COVID-19 online starting March 20, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia reported earlier today.
Infectious disease specialists will answer the questions of citizens via a Facebook live feed, which will be organized by Georgian diplomatic missions abroad.
The first online consultation will be held today at 17:00 pm (GMT +1), on the Facebook page of the Embassy of Georgia to Italy: https://www.facebook.com/ambasciatadigeorgia/
We ask citizens to send questions about the coronavirus to Rome.doctor@mfa.gov.ge," reads the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The schedule of the current week of online consultations for Georgian citizens in other countries is as follows: March 21 - Spain, March 22 - France.
Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani stated yesterday that the state will support Georgian citizens who are now in the EU Schengen Zone and will have to violate the legal, 90-day-term of stay due to restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus.
Ten individuals from the Georgian regions of Imereti, Samegrelo, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti have been placed under quarantine for violating self-isolation rules aimed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19. As of today, there are a total of 190 individuals under the mandatory quarantine in Georgia.
Georgian communication agencies have created posters encouraging the Georgian population to stay home to counter the global coronavirus pandemic. "Let's take #Stayhomicillin and we will definitely survive", BRID wrote on its Facebook.
A young Georgian woman suffering with cancer has died in Spain after being infected with COVID-19, Deputy Head of the Georgian National Disease Control Centre Paata Imnadze stated today.
Georgia has confirmed one more new case of COVID-19, increasing the total number of infected individuals to 49. As of today 1,966 individuals are under quarantine in Georgia, while 259 others - under medical observation at hospitals.
Georgia is completely shutting down air traffic in the country starting tomorrow in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, announced the PM's Advisor for Foreign Affairs Irakli Chikovani today.Chikovani added that only "government-coordinated flights" carried out by the national flag carrier Georgian Airlines will be operated. He also said that every citizen who enters Georgia will be quarantined.
In order to help Georgian citizens who are currently abroad and cannot return to their home country due to suspended or cancelled flights, the government of Georgia is offering to co-finance flights that will be carried out by the national flag carrier Georgian Airways.
Georgia’s National Tourism Administration (GNTA) will create quarantine zones for Georgian citizens returning to the country from abroad amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus – COVID-19, said GNTA head Mariam Kvrivishvili today.
A 74-year-old Georgian woman with underlying chronic disease has died in Spain after being infected with COVID-19, the Georgian government has confirmed.
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has announced earlier today that the governments of Georgia and the United States have made a joint decision to return 79 Georgian school students who are currently in the US to Georgia tomorrow amid the coronavirus outbreak.