Georgia tightens entry rules for Indian visitors due to pandemic
A total of 184,372 individuals have been tested positive for Covid-19 in India in the last 24 hours, which is a record high daily rate of Covid-19 infection worldwide. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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From April 15, despite Covid-19 vaccine passports, all Indian visitors entering Georgia will be required to present PCR test results from the proceeding 72 hours.
After entering Georgia, individuals coming from India (regardless of their citizenship) will have to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine, which should be financed by their own budget.
According to the amendments, which have already entered into force, any person coming from India is obliged to present a document confirming the full course of any type of Covid vaccine, while foreign students coming from India, regardless of their citizenship, full course of vaccination and negative PCR test, will have to undergo 14-day mandatory quarantine.
Quarantine expenses of six days for the foreign students who entered from India to Georgia on April 14 will be covered only once by the Georgian government , while the rest 8 day-quarantine should be financed by the students themselves (regardless of their citizenship).
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The epidemic situation in India has been deteriorating recently. A total of 184,372 individuals have been tested positive for Covid-19 in the country in the last 24 hours, which is a record high daily rate of Covid-19 infection worldwide.
In the last 24 hours, 1,027 Covid patients have died in India.
There have been 13.9 million cases of Covid-19 in India since the Covid-19 outbreak began worldwide.
Georgian law enforcers have detained one individual for making and selling fake, negative PCR test certificates.
The first flow of vaccinated tourists will appear in Georgia in the second half of March, Economy Minister Natia Turnava said earlier today.
Travellers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus will be allowed to enter Georgia after presenting a negative PCR test from the past 72 hours at the border starting March 1, announces Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
Starting today international flights are resuming in Georgia and all airline companies that have already operated or plan to enter the country's aviation market in the future are able to operate regular flights. Air traffic in Georgia was completely suspended in March 2020. In July 2020, Georgia opened its borders to travellers from Germany, France, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Eurowings, a German low-cost carrier and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, is planning to enter Georgia and carry out regular flights between the two countries, announces the Ministry of Economy of Georgia.
The Tolerance and Diversity Institute of Georgia has released a statement regarding recent restrictions imposed by the government of Georgia for individuals coming from India to Georgia, including students, which sets a 14-day quarantine and allows entry in the country only by charter flight.
Georgia has reported a total of 1,219 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting 12,292 PCR tests and 21,754 rapid tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the 1,219 new cases 676 were reported in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
Ukrainian low-cost airline Bees Airline is planning to enter Georgia and carry out regular flights between the two countries, announces the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency.
150 Indian students from the Faculty of Science and Education at Batumi State University in the Georgian Adjara region will have their student status suspended due to coronavirus restrictions on travel from India.
Georgia has reported 18 cases of Indian variant of Covid-19, the Deputy Head of the National Centre for Disease Control Paata Imnadze said today.
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze has recommended that even vaccinated travellers entering Georgia should receive a Covid-19 test in the country. “…this is important to have guarantees that we are not dealing with falsified documentation. Testing should be a regulation, not a recommendation", she said.
A newborn transferred from occupied Abkhazia to Tsitsishvili Children’s Clinic in Tbilisi has tested positive for the Delta Covid-19 variant. Director of the clinic Davit Rekhviashvili says currently there are three newborn children with respiratory complications in the clinic who have tested positive for coronavirus.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is paying his first official visit to Georgia on July 9-10. FM Jaishankar will discuss the bilateral relations, as well as exchange views on issues of regional and global interest with his Georgian counterpart tomorrow.
The remains of the 17th century Georgian Queen Ketevan have returned from India to Georgia.Tortured in Persia for her faith, her remains were discovered during excavations at the abandoned Church Complex of St. Augustine in Goa, India in 2013.
Lebanon and Jordan have been added to the list of countries whose citizens can enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the coordination council decided today. Citizens and residents of 40 countries can now enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site says.
Over 2,000 Indian citizens who are students of various universities in Georgia and are stuck in India due to the pandemic and Covid-19 regulations, have asked the Georgian Prime Minister and other high officials to help them return in the country to continue their studies.
Georgian law enforcers have detained seven individuals for making and selling fake Covid-19 vaccine documents today, reports the State Security Service of Georgia (SSS).
Georgia has reported 3,034 new cases of coronavirus, 3,952 recoveries and 86 deaths in the past 24 hours.