Public transport to resume, sports competitions permissible without spectators in Georgia
Vaccination in Georgia is currently available with the Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Sinocav vaccines. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Public transport in all large Georgian cities will resume operations from September 13 while sports competitions in the country will be held without spectators in attendance, Chief of the Operational Staff of the Interagency Coordination Council Giorgi Gibradze announced today.
Sports competitions will be held without spectators. All participants must be either vaccinated or have a PCR test conducted within 72 hours or a rapid antigen test in the last 24 hours,” Gibradze said.
The Georgian government imposed a three-week-long restrictions on August 12 as the new cases of coronavirus and daily deaths started to hit record numbers.
Public transport was scheduled to resume working on September 4, however, the country’s coordination council prolonged the restriction for one more week.
Inter-city transport has been operating and will continue to do so.
Georgia has reported 1,965 new cases of coronavirus and 50 deaths in the last 24 hours.
A total of 36,310 people remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia.
17.1 per cent of the Georgian adult population is fully vaccinated as of September 7, while 29.8 per cent of the country’s citizens have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Vaccination in Georgia is currently available with the Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Sinocav vaccines.
Georgia has reported 1,965 new cases of coronavirus, 3,996 recoveries and 50 deaths in the past 24 hours. 36,310 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia. 25,624 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 18,740 of the 25,624 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 6,884 were PCR tests.
A total of 480,613 people are completely vaccinated in Georgia which amounts to 16.8 per cent of the country’s adult population as of September 6, Georgia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announces. 845,420 individuals (29.6 per cent of the country's adult population) have received at least one dose of vaccine.
Head of the National Center for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze has called on politicians running for local seats in the October 2 municipal elections to promote coronavirus vaccination in their election campaign. "The main slogan [of the parties] during the election campaign should be [aimed at encouraging the public] to get vaccinated”, Gamkrelidze has told journalists.
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.
Public transport in all big cities of Georgia, which was scheduled to resume on September 4, will not work until September 13, while in-person studies have been postponed until October 4 in the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Inter-city transport will continue to operate. Between September 15 and October 4 at least all public schools, universities and vocational education facilities around the country will offer online lessons, while kindergartners, both public and private, will be closed.
The government of Georgia has decided to introduce a 2.8 million GEL lottery in order to encourage citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The lottery will start on September 13 and will be drawn on a daily basis on the website www.stopcov.lotto.ge at 12:00 p.m. until the end of the year, offering 100 and 500 GEL prizes.
The Ministry of Health of Georgia has developed an application to read QR codes containing information about an individual’s PCR test results of the past 72 hours, whether an individual has recovered from Covid-19 in the past six months and how many doses of the Covid-19 vaccine a citizen has received.
First grade students will start their first school year on October 4 in all cities and villages of Georgia where the Covid-19 infection rate is below 4%, announces the Ministry of Education of Georgia. "This decision applies only to public schools and is based on the pedagogical opinion that the first school experience of first graders should be conducted in a classroom environment, surrounded by classmates and teachers", reports the ministry.
Georgia has reported 2,571 new cases of coronavirus, 3,668 recoveries and 60 deaths in the past 24 hours. 35,153 remain infected with Covid-19 in Georgia. 29,449 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 21,313 of the 29,449 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 8,236 were PCR tests. The country has had 570,493 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020.