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.
The newborn was transferred from Russia-occupied Abkhazia to Tsitsishvili Children’s Clinic in early July. The patient had respiratory complications and was on artificial respiration”, Chkhaidze said.
This is the second case of an infant’s death from coronavirus in Georgia.
Another newborn died of coronavirus in Tsitsishvili Children’s Clinic on July 16. The patient was infected with Alpha, the British variant of the coronavirus.
Georgia has reported 2,616 new cases of coronavirus, 880 recoveries and 26 deaths in the past 24 hours.