Coronavirus: 2,617 new cases of 43,394 tests in 24 hours
As of now, the number of total confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Georgia stands at 400,698, including 371,434 recoveries, 5,665 deaths and 23,573 active cases. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgia has reported a total of 2,617 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting 43,394 tests over the last 24 hours.
Out of the new 2,617 cases 1,485 were reported in Tbilisi.
Other cases were reported in:
- Adjara – 236
- Imereti – 220
- Kvemo Kartli – 153
- Kakheti - 152
- Shida Kartli – 123
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti – 111
- Mtskheta-Mtianeti – 45
- Samtskhe-Javakheti - 44
- Guria – 31
- Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti – 17
Meanwhile, 869 people have recovered and nine individuals have died.
As of now, the number of total confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Georgia stands at 400,698, including 371,434 recoveries, 5,665 deaths and 23,573 active cases.
Health and state officials call on the citizens eligible for vaccination to register at booking.moh.gov.ge and receive any of the four vaccines currently available in Georgia - Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Sinovac – and protect their health and the health of their beloved ones.
500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States have arrived in Georgia. Registration for the vaccine starts at 12 p.m. today via the booking.moh.gov.ge website. Meanwhile, Georgia has also received 15,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Lithuania.
Foreigners living in Georgia will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccines, the Georgian Ministry of Labour and Health announced earlier today.
The Covid-19 Delta variant amounts to almost half of new cases based on the data of the US-founded Lugar lab in Tbilisi, Head of Georgia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today. He also noted that the share of children in the daily coronavirus infection rate is 10-12 per cent.
Georgia has reported 2,061 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting a total of 31,204 tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the 2,061 new cases 1,030 were reported in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
19,375 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 9,807 of the 19,375 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 9,568 were PCR tests. The country has had 404,023 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 5.73 per cent of tested individuals had Covid-19 in the past 14 days.374,753 of the 404,023 patients have recovered, while 5,714 have died from the virus.
Lebanon and Jordan have been added to the list of countries whose citizens can enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the coordination council decided today. Citizens and residents of 40 countries can now enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site says.