Health Minister: no risk of swine flu epidemic, pharmacies well-stocked
Most of the people who are suffering from the flu currently are infected by H1N1 also known as swine flu.
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Georgian Health Minister Davit Sergeenko says there is no risk of a swine flu epidemic in the country.
“Although the flu infection level has increased recently, there is no reason to panic. There is no risk of an epidemic”, he stated earlier today, and added that pharmacies are well-stocked with the appropriate medications.
Antiviral medication Tamiflu will be free of charge for pregnant women and socially vulnerable groups. To receive medication free of charge, beneficiaries must visit municipal public health centres, added Sergeenko.
The decision was made as a result of an increased number of infected persons. Pregnant people have a higher chance of getting the virus.
The medicine will be available to the mentioned social groups starting tomorrow.
Currently, the H1N1 virus has caused the death of six people in Georgia this winter.
The symptoms of H1N1 virus are almost the same as the seasonal flu and may involve cough, fever, sore throat, body and headaches and fatigue.
A thirty-nine-year old woman has died in a hospital in Gori, in a town of eastern Georgia, from the flu, doctors say.
The latest statistical data from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows that every 276 people in 100,000 have contracted the flu in Georgia.
Swine flu (H1N1) has caused one more death in Georgia.
About 63 cases of influenza have been reported in the last 3 weeks and 95% of them were H1N1, known as the swine flu, reports director of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze.
The H1N1 virus has caused the death of eight people in Georgia this winter.
Four pharmacy chains have received an additional supply of anti-flu medicine Tamiflu, totalling 800 packages from the Ministry of Health.
Parents of Georgian schoolchildren have requested the winter-spring school session commence later than scheduled to the spread of the acute respiratory illness H1N1, also known as the swine flu. A total of 158 cases of H1N1 have been reported in the country this winter – the illness has claimed ten lives.
Georgia will purchase double amount of anti-flu vaccines for 2019-2020 and this will be 80,000 vaccines instead of the 41,000 which were purchased for 2018-2019, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze has told Netgazeti.
Studies at Georgian public schools and kindergartens have been postponed until January 21 due to the spread of flu. Up to 640 people are being treated in the country's hospitals for the virus, 39 of them are receiving critical care. According to official data 10 have lost their lives to the swine flu.
The Georgian National Disease Control Centre has decided to reveal the statistics of flu in Georgia over the past 10 years to dispel speculations that 2018-2019 is an “exceptionally bad year” in terms of flu.
A woman who delivered via C-section birth a week ago has died allegedly due to the H1N1 flu.
Seventeen people have died because of the H1N1 acute respiratory illness in Georgia, which is also known as swine flu, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre says.
Two people have died because of the swine flu (H1N1) in Georgia in December, the Georgian National Disease Control Centre (NCDC) says.
Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), announced that there is no risk of a flu epidemic in Georgia.