Agriculture Minister: Products brought from Marneuli, Bolnisi municipalities are absolutely safe
Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities were placed under lockdown after a local, 62-year-old woman tested positive for COVID-19 on March 22. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili has stated that products that are exported from Marneuli and Bolnisi quarantine zones in the country's east are ‘absolutely safe and harmless’ in terms of spread of the new coronavirus – COVID-19.
Products has to be brought from Marneuli and Bolnisi Municipalities and delivered to the Georgian markets, because it is absolutely safe and harmless. It is important that people who have been placed under quarantine not to leave the areas. Soon we will have much more organized trading space in the region in order to import and export locally produced products out of the quarantined regions”, said Davitashvili.
Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities were placed under lockdown after a local, 62-year-old woman tested positive for COVID-19 on March 22.
Movement inside the municipality is strongly controlled. Locals are able to carry out agricultural work only in line with strict rules, also, to move about only to buy food, medical products or see a doctor.
Medics in the region have checked 20,000 individuals for suspicious symptoms of the coronavirus, of which 25 have been found to have a fever.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has reached 73 in Georgia, with 10 people having recovered since the beginning of the outbreak.
Two of the 73 are Austrian citizens who have already returned home via a chartered flight.
As of now there are 62 people inside the country infected with the virus.
Drones from the Emergency Management Service are being used by agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to monitor the Marneuli quarantined zone in country's east.
The Emergency Management Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has set up a field hospital in Marneuli municipality in eastern Georgia today after a local, 62-year-old woman tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, and who came into contact with more than 80 people and spent four days in a local hospital.
Georgia has enough supplies of meat and fish and there are no difficulties in importing cargo and replenishing supplies, announces Georgian Ministry of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili.
Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities in eastern Georgia have been placed under lockdown after a local, 62-year-old woman tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday after coming into contact with more than 80 people and spending four days in a local hospital. The two municipalities have more than 158,000 people total.How the woman contracted the virus is as of yet unknown. Her health condition is critical.
Two people have tested positive for the new coronavirus increasing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 75. As of now, the number of infected individuals stands at 63 in Georgia: two Austrian citizens have returned home via a chartered flight; while ten individuals have recovered.
Georgia will test locals of Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities in eastern Georgia with 1,000 rapid coronavirus tests, which provide results within an hour and a half. Eventually the country will have a total of 200,000 rapid coronavirus tests.
Georgia has reported two new cases of COVID-19 today, connected with the US and France. The total number of confirmed cases in Georgia stands at 77. 10 of the 77 have recovered, while two were Austrian citizens who have already left the country via a charter flight.
EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell says that when the coronavirus is ‘turning the world upside down’ he ‘cannot think of a better place to be right now than here in Georgia.’Hartzell states that there are no easy answers regarding COVID-19 and that the EU is suffering much from the virus.“Just look at the pictures coming out of Spain and Italy these days. In this context I would like to congratulate the Georgian government and the Georgian politicians for doing what all evidence suggest is the right approach – to act early and to act robustly,” Hartzell said.
A baby has been born in Marneuli Municipality in eastern Georgia, which has been under quarantine for the second week now. The young family living in the village of Kesalo, did not have a child for eight years.
Georgia will not face a shortage of wheat despite the fact that Russia has halted wheat exports to the country, claims Georgian Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili.
The Georgian State Security Service has launched an investigation following reports of opposition-minded TV channel Mtavari Arkhi on June 20, claiming an alleged artificial increase in coronavirus cases in Georgia.
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) says that Azerbaijani-language interviews concerning an alleged artificial increase in coronavirus cases in Georgia, prepared by opposition-minded TV channel Mtavari Arkhi on June 20, were deliberately distorted by the authors of the programme through incorrect translation.