Newborn transferred from Abkhazia to Tbilisi clinic tests positive for Covid-19 Delta variant
Director of Tsitsishvili Children's Clinic Davit Rekhviashvili says currently there are three newborn children with respiratory complications in the clinic who have tested positive for coronavirus. Photo: evexhospitals.ge.
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A newborn transferred from occupied Abkhazia to Tsitsishvili Children’s Clinic in Tbilisi has tested positive for the Delta Covid-19 variant.
Director of the clinic Davit Rekhviashvili says currently there are three newborn children with respiratory complications in the clinic who have tested positive for coronavirus.
The newborn children with respiratory complications are on artificial respiration.
Until now there had been no case of doctors having to use artificial respiration in newborn Covid patients… We [doctors] know for sure that the patient transferred from Abkhazia has the Delta Covid variant. Two other newborns also tested positive for coronavirus, but additional tests are needed to determine the strain”, said Rekhviashvili.
On July 8 Head of the National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said Delta variant is expected to completely replace the British variant of Covid-19 by mid-August in Georgia.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that the Delta variant of coronavirus is more transmittable in all age groups.
WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge said during a news briefing on May 20 that authorised vaccines in the US and Europe ‘appear to be effective against variants of the disease’.
From April 15, despite Covid vaccine passports, all Indian visitors entering Georgia will be required to present PCR test results from the proceeding 72 hours. After entering Georgia, individuals coming from India (regardless of their citizenship) will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine, which should be financed by their own budget.
Two new confirmed cases of the Indian strain of Covid-19 virus have been identified in Georgia, National Centre for Disease Control head Amiran Gamkrelidze said on Saturday.
Georgia has reported 18 cases of Indian variant of Covid-19, the Deputy Head of the National Centre for Disease Control Paata Imnadze said today.
Georgia has reported five cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19, the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announces. It further says that the five travellers, who have tested positive for the Indian variant, have been identified and sent to isolation.
Georgia has reported 659 new cases of coronavirus, 713 recoveries and 16 deaths in the past 24 hours. In total, 14,200 tests have been conducted around the country of which 6,608 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 7,592 were PCR tests.
Attendance at conferences, trainings and seminars will be allowed only on the basis of PCR test starting July 19. Regardless of their organisational form and venue, camp-type gatherings will be prohibited in Georgia starting July 19.
A newborn has died of the Covid-19 Delta variant in Tsitsishvili Children’s Clinic in Tbilisi earlier today. Medical director of the clinic Maia Chkhaidze told local media outlet Interpressnews that the patient’s health condition had been critical.