Tbilisi mayor offers assistance to nightclub owners following decision to keep clubs closed
“We provided serious assistance to these people last year and now we are ready to meet them and promise maximum support and assistance to this business,” Kaladze said. Photo: Kakha Kaladze/Facebook.
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Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has stated that Tbilisi City Hall is ready to support and assist nightclub businesses following the announcement of the Georgian government’s decision on December 22 that nightclubs will remain closed due to rising cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the country.
Kaladze said that this sector has been severely affected by the pandemic ‘as [the clubs] closed the earliest and have not been allowed to open so far.’
We provided serious assistance to these people last year and now we are ready to meet them and promise maximum support and assistance to this business,” Kaladze said.
Tbilisi City Hall allocated two million GEL for about 500 artists in the electronic and club music industry in March of this year.
Despite the government’s decision a total of 22 nightclub owners state that they will continue to operate with Covid regulations observed to ‘avoid their physical destruction.’
Nightclubs in Georgia have been closed for almost two years.
About 500 artists in the electronic and club music industry will receive financial assistance from Tbilisi City Hall, which has allocated 2 million GEL in order to help industry players overcome the Covid-19 crisis.
The Interagency Coordination Council has decided not to open nightclubs across the country due to rising cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Chief of Operational Staff of the council, Giorgi Gibradze, reported earlier today.
The Interagency Coordination Council has not yet decided to open night clubs thus events in the facilities are not allowed, the Labour Inspection Service of Georgia reports in response to the information announced earlier that night clubs in Georgia open on December 17.
Co-founder of underground club Bassiani in Tbilisi Naja Orashvili has reported earlier today that night clubs in Georgia will open December 17 ‘after a pause of almost two years.'
The Coordination Council has decided to let nightclubs in Georgia hold events on December 31 and January 1, the Georgian government administration reports. A limited number of guests will be allowed at the events, the administration says.
Nightclubs in Tbilisi say they will continue working on January 14-15, and demand a ‘new, fair and non-discriminatory plan’ be developed to allow them to continue functioning during the pandemic.
Tbilisi City Hall will finance additional examinations for beneficiaries of the expensive medication financing programme for citizens diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, mayor Kakha Kaladze announced earlier today.