NCDC Head: Covid situation in Georgia under control
Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of the National Centre for Disease Control, said Covid hospitals were currently not suffering overcrowding, as the BA.4 and BA.5, the new variants of the Omicron strand of the virus, characterised by mild symptoms unlike other variants. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The pandemic situation in Georgia is under control, with figures for Covid-19-related deaths having not increased in the country over the last two weeks, Amiran Gamkrelidze, the Head of the National Centre for Disease Control, said on Thursday.
Gamkrelidze said Covid hospitals were currently not suffering overcrowding, as the BA.4 and BA.5, the new variants of the Omicron strand of the virus, characterised by mild symptoms unlike other variants.
The Head of the Centre also said Paxlovid, a Covid-19 treatment medication, had shown “quite a good effect” for patients in severe condition.
In most cases, there is no need to transfer patients with a confirmed Covid-19 diagnosis to hospital if they receive the medication within five days of the onset of symptoms”, Gamkrelidze noted.
He also noted individuals over 18 years of age with chronic diseases and high-risk groups were permitted to receive a third - or booster - shot of Covid-19 vaccines.
The epidemiological situation in Georgia is “calm” and “fully manageable” with no “sharp increase” in infection cases, Georgian Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili said on Monday.
Effectiveness of existing coronavirus vaccines available in Georgia and the importance of vaccination were pointed out by Amiran Gamkrelidze, the Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control, on Thursday, amid an increase in the daily number of Covid-19 cases in the country.
Georgian health authorities have registered 2,570 new cases of Covid-19 over the past week, with the figure including three deaths and 1,103 recoveries and marking an increase in confirmed cases of the virus in the country.
Wearing a face mask in public transport will no longer be mandatory across Georgia starting June 20, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday.
The Georgian National Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday published the results of the latest report that says 59 percent of the patients who died from Covid-19 in the country had suffered from concomitant chronic diseases.