Georgian Defence Force servicemembers are ensuring quarantine conditions in eastern Georgia's Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities using equipment provided by partners from the United States and Germany.
A company-sized unit is manning checkpoints leading in an out of the zone that has been on lockdown over the past week after a woman tested positive for the new coronavirus came in contact with over 80 people.
The unit, trained in radioactive, chemical and biological defence, is working to disinfect vehicles entering and exiting the municipalities while also decontaminating "adjacent areas", the Ministry of Defence of Georgia said.
Equipped with hardware and tools provided for free by the US and Germany, service members have also been trained by instructors from the partner countries in dealing with epidemics.
The troops, drawn from a combat engineer battalion, worked with German Federal Defence Forces' school for radioactive, chemical and biological defence and the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency in their preparation.
Beside being prepared to help during pandemics the unit has previously been involved in efforts to contribute combating fires and flooding.