De-facto Tskhinvali: ‘offering medical services to residents of Tskhinvali is a provocation from Georgia’

The so-called State Security Committee of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Tskhinvali region says that offering medical services to residents of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region is a provocation from Georgia. 

The statement released by the so-called State Security Committee of Tskhinvali reads that the ‘irresponsible Georgian regime, under the direct external control of its Western curators, continues to provoke the residents of South Ossetia to illegally cross the state border’.

For example, on April 13, the Georgian authorities offered South Ossetian citizens in need of emergency medical care to freely leave the region, and also canceled their mandatory 5-day quarantine. These ‘privileges’ are a gross provocation that threatens the safety of residents of the Republic”, the press office of the so-called State Security Committee of Tskhinvali wrote.

The committee warned residents of the Tskhinvali region that ‘before committing an unlawful act’, they should ‘think about the possible consequences, the existence of administrative and criminal liability for violation of border legislation, as well as the health of loved ones who are in serious epidemiological danger’.

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The Georgian government recently announced that residents of the Russian-occupied Georgian territories (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) will be able to undergo Covid-19 rapid tests before entering Tbilisi-controlled territory instead of being placed in 5-day quarantine.

Residents of Russia-occupied territories over the age of 55 will also be able to get vaccinated.

Citizens vaccinated with two-dose shots will no longer be obliged to take tests when entering the territory controlled by the central government of Georgia.