Health Minister: 'It is important to fully reopen Adjara, keep community transmission rate at 3%'
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze says that it is important for Adjara region of Georgia to be fully reopened and keep the community transmission rate at 3%. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze says that it is important for Adjara region of Georgia to be fully reopened and keep the community transmission rate at 3%.
After the meeting with the local business community Tikaradze said that business is ready to cooperate with the government.
Following the examples of different countries, it is important to have lockdowns during two days a week. It is important that the mobility rate be low at least two days a week", she said.
Tikaradze said that 'we have received positive feedback' from the business community.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said yesterday that if the community transmission rate continues to remain at over 4% any talk about normal economic performance is 'nothing more than gossip'.
"If the community transmission rate drops under 4% in the coming weeks, we will be able to talk about the resumption of municipal transport in the capital city and reopening of those economic sectors that will be permitted by the epidemic situation”, he said.
Georgian Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Maia Tskitishvili says that 'our international guests' can still visit the Georgian region of Adjara via flights that connect Georgia to other countries.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said at today's inter-agency coordination council meeting that if the community transmission rate continues to remain at over 4% any talk about normal economic performance is 'nothing more than gossip'.
A total of 228,410 cases of Covid-19 were reported in Georgia between February 26, 2019 and December 31, 2020, reads the fifth review of the Covid-19 in Georgia, published by the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health.
Several coronavirus-related restrictions will be lifted in Georgia in February and in March, following a plan approved at today's Interagency Coordination Council meeting. Georgian Infrastructure Minister and the first Deputy Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili said that since there are signs of an easing of the epidemiological situation in some regions of Georgia, there is also the possibility of lifting several restrictions.
Over 100 restaurants in Tbilisi will stop working on January 30 for 24 hours as a form of protest against the coronavirus restrictions in the restaurant sector, according to which they can only work with takeaway service, said founder of the Georgian Restaurateurs Association Shota Burjanadze.
As the number of coronavirus-infected individuals in Georgia has decreased over the past few weeks, the Georgian government has lifted several Covid-19 restrictions across the country today.