Georgian rugby team head coach is still critically ill with Covid-19

The health condition of the Georgian national rugby team head coach Levan Maisashvili is still critically severe due to Covid-19 complications, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has posted on Facebook today. 

Georgia Rugby Union confirmed the information about Maisashvili’s critical condition in the middle of July.

Salome Zurabishvili announced that Maisashvili has not had any additional complications in the last two days, 'although he had all the possible complications before,' she stated.

The Facebook post also reads that the Georgian coach's treatment is ongoing ‘at one of the best private clinics Milpark hospitals in Johannesburg.’ 

There is a full possibility of high-tech treatment on the spot, so the family did not decide to move anywhere,” President Zurabishvili posted. 

President Zurabishvili also stated that the Georgian doctor Vakhtang Rekhviashvili ‘a very successful and authoritative doctor’ is also at the Milpark hospitals in Johannesburg who ‘pays maximum attention’ to Maisashvili’s condition.

Levan Maisashvili with five other Georgian rugby team members tested positive for the coronavirus after their July 2 match against South Africa in Pretoria which led to the cancellation of the planned July 17 game in Tbilisi against Scotland.