Deputy Health Minister: online consultation service to be launched for pregnant Covid-19 patients
More than 56,000 people remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Pregnant Covid-19 patients in Georgia will be able to use online obstetrician and gynaecologist services in the upcoming days, Georgian Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia announced earlier today.
She also stated that the coronavirus Delta strain ‘is riskier for pregnant patients than for other individuals.’
Prevention is extremely important for pregnant women, including vaccination, social distance and facemasks. Vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine is possible and ongoing,” Gabunia said.
Gabunia underlined that there are beds in hospitals for pregnant patients, noting that ‘there is no shortage in this regard.’
If a pregnant woman needs hospital management, she will be admitted to hospital,” noted Gabunia.
In 2021 eight pregnant women have already died of coronavirus whereas last year only one confirmed case of a pregnant woman’s death was recorded, Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze (NCDC) said several days ago.
As Tamar Gabunia said today research is currently underway to determine how many pregnant women have died from coronavirus in Georgia.
Georgia has reported 4,128 new cases of coronavirus and 79 deaths in the last 24 hours.
More than 56,000 people remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia.
The Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines are currently available in the country.
Georgia has reported 4,128 new cases of coronavirus, 5,611 recoveries and 79 deaths in the past 24 hours. 56,200 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia currently. 43,653 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 26,534 of the 43,653 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 17,119 were PCR tests. The country has had 532,171 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 10.77 per cent of tested individuals had Covid-19 in the past 14 days.
Head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze has stated that Covid-19 deaths in the past one week in Georgia and worldwide outnumbered the most common individuals causes of death such as cardiovascular diseases, ischemic heart diseases, stroke and tumors.
One more field hospital for 200 Covid-19 patients on Kavtaradze Street in Tbilisi has received its first patients yesterday, Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze stated earlier today.
Georgia has reported 74 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours which is a record high figure since the country confirmed its first case of Covid-19 at the end of February 2020. 6,723 individuals have died from the virus in Georgia so far. The country has reported 4,901 new cases of 46,595 tests and 2,586 recoveries in the past 24 hours. Most of the new cases were reported in the capital Tbilisi, Adjara and Imereti regions.
The Georgian government will offer incentives to the public to encourage them to get vaccinated against Covid-19, said Head of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze today.
Director of Tbilisi Infectious Disease Hospital Marina Ezugbaia stated that the current coronavirus mortality rate in Georgia is the result of an increased number of coronavirus daily cases and not the incorrect treatment of patients. Georgia has reported 86 deaths in the last 24 hours which is the highest daily coronavirus mortality rate recorded. A total of 7,649 people have died in Georgia since the beginning of the pandemic out of which 1,631 individuals died in August.
The death toll in completely vaccinated people stands at three in Georgia, head of Georgia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze said today. He stated that Covid-19 has become the number one cause of death both in Georgia and worldwide.
Georgian Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili on Thursday discussed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, efforts for its prevention and future plans of his office at a United Nations General Assembly meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in New York.