Georgia reports two new cases of COVID-19, total number of cases stands at 77
As of now 65 in Georgia have been infected with coronavirus. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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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.
As of now 65 in Georgia remain infected with the virus, five are children.
Health officials say that three patients may be discharged in the coming hours.
The health condition of four of 65 is critical.
4,055 people in Georgia are under quarantine and 252 others are in hospitals.
Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities in eastern Georgia are in lockdown.
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’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili has stated that products that are brought 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.
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.
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.
Rapid coronavirus tests will be used for people in high risk groups and who display symptoms after testing is carried out in Marneuli and Bolnisi, two regions in eastern Georgia under lockdown.
A pregnant woman from Bolnisi Municipality in Eastern Georgia has tested positive for coronavirus today; she is the close relative of a 62-year-old patient from Marneuli municipality, who also tested positive for the virus on March 22.