20 university entrance exam taker tests positive for coronavirus in Georgia
About 39,000 individuals have registered for the country’s university entrance test, says the National Examination and Assessment Centre. Photo: IPN.
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Twenty university entrance exam takers have tested positive for coronavirus in Georgia, Head of the National Examination and Assessment Centre Sopo Gorgodze said today.
Entrants who have been tested positive for coronavirus will be able to take exams later.
National exams for university entrants have started today and will end on July 25 throughout the country.
Only 10 entrants are allowed in a room.
All individuals taking exams or observing examination have to wear face masks.
The entrants who will have temperature before the exams will be tested for Covid-19 free of charge.
If an individual tests positive for coronavirus, he/she should call the hotline of the National Examination and Assessment Centre, after which the centre will notify him/her the exam date.
A total of 38,400 individuals have registered for the country’s university entrance test, says the National Examination and Assessment Centre.
30,579 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 15,598 of the 30,579 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 14,981 were PCR tests.
In total 2,587 people died from Covid-19 in 2020, which accounted for more than five per cent of total deaths in Georgia. The number of total deaths in Georgia in 2020 amounted to 50,537, while in 2019 this number was 46,659, with a mortality rate per 1,000 persons increased by 1.1%, the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) reports.
One applicant who took a university entrance exam on July 7 has tested positive for the coronavirus, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze confirmed earlier today.
University applicants living in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions will be enrolled in universities without passing the Unified National Exams, reports the Georgian Ministry of Education.
Georgia has reported 964 new cases of coronavirus, 607 recoveries and eight deaths in the past 24 hours. In total, 28,190 tests have been conducted around the country of which 13,696 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 14,494 were PCR tests. Since February 26, 2020 Georgia has had 368,022 cases of coronavirus, 353,231 recoveries and 5,335 deaths.
A total of 24 inmates have registered for the country’s university entrance exams this year, says the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia.
A total of 29,362 university applicants of 38,300 registered have passed the United National Exams, the common national exams for higher education.
Twenty-five inmates at Georgian penitentiary facilities, including six minors, have registered for the country’s ongoing university entrance exams, the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia said on Monday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday pledged further efforts by his Government to ensure a higher quality domestic education system and a “safe environment” for the country’s youth in his message to more than 45,000 university entrants on the launch of exams earlier during the day.