All kinds of municipal transport services – including Tbilisi Metro – have been resumed throughout Georgia today.
All types of municipal transport will be reopened from May 29, Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia said at the meeting of the Inter-Agency Coordination Council on COVID-19 today.
According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of the National Center for Disease Control, tourists will likely have to present a document while entering Georgia that they had been tested in the last 72 hours and the result was negative.
As the epidemiological situation allows to accelerate certain situations, some restrictions have been lifted today in Georgia.
Some of the restrictions imposed due to coronavirus spread is going to be lifted in Georgia from Monday, May 18.
According to the Prime Minister, Giorgi Gakharia, the government will not address the President with a request to extend the state of emergency after May 22.
Based on the decision made by the Interagency Coordinating Council, due to the high epidemiological risk, strict quarantine restrictions have been enacted in the village of Geta, Bolnisi Municipality, as part of the state of emergency.
Georgia starts to partially lift some of the coronavirus related restrictions which were banned under the state of emergency.
The ninth patient has died of coronavirus in Georgia, who was 58-year-old in a critical condition.
The Maritime Transport Agency said they are working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia on the issue related to the abduction of Georgian sailors by pirates in Nigeria.
The worldwide lockdown has changed many lives. If before pandemic it was usual to go out in the evening with a friend, drink beer or sip coffee, pandemic has changed the way people spend time.
Nearly all passenger flights have been grounded after the coronavirus outbreak and declaration of the worldwide pandemic.
Georgia has managed to contain the epidemic, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health said.
There is a hope that Georgia will be among the first countries which receive remdesivir medicine from the US, Tengiz Tsertsvadze, General Director of the Tbilisi Infectious Diseases Hospital said.
Georgia has received 40 thousand PCR tests from china, including 20 thousand antibody tests as a gift from the Chinese government, Healthcare Minister, Ekaterine Tikaradze said, who met the cargo at the airport.
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) publishes new study which forecasts possible end of the coronavirus pandemic in the world and some of the other countries, including Georgia.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has increased to 511 in Georgia.
More than 100 thousand people in Georgia have downloaded a new government smartphone application designed to aid coronavirus contact tracing efforts.
“We will have to learn to cohabit and coexist with this virus” – says Tengiz Tsertsvadze, General Director of the Tbilisi Infectious Diseases Hospital.
Georgia starts to lift some restrictions effective April 27. This is within the government’s plan that consists of 6 stages.
Weddings in Georgia are usually crowded. Bride and Groom use limousine and guests follow them with their cars.
“Only from a hospital ward can one see the scale of the pandemic that is much larger than one can imagine” – Georgian Lile Absandze, a patient who recovered from COVID-19 says on Facebook.
12 more patients tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Georgia, taking the number of total confirmed cases to 456.
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has named 6 stages of easing the restrictions imposed within the framework of the state of emergency and opening up the economy.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently released a report on tackling the educational challenges in 2020 caused by COVID-19 pandemic.
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