Woman with COVID-19 symptoms gives birth, hospitalised in Kutaisi clinic from occupied Abkhazia
As of today 353 remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia. Photo: The Ministry of Health.
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A woman with COVID-19 symptoms has been transferred to Bomond Clinic in Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi from Russian-occupied Abkhazia where she gave birth to a child. The result of the laboratory tests for coronavirus is not known yet.
The director of the clinic, Mamuka Mikadze, said that the woman was admitted to the clinic in severe condition and underwent a caesarean delivery at 30 weeks of pregnancy.
The patient is in a separate ward of the intensive care unit and the newborn has been placed in the children's intensive care unit. Their health condition is stable, said Mikadze.
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Georgia reported 22 new cases of coronavirus earlier today, bringing the total number of cases to 539.
178 patients of the 539 have recovered, while six others have died.
As of today 353 remain infected with COVID-19 in Georgia.
5,256 people are under quarantine in the country and 548 others are in hospitals.
A new hospital has opened in the village of Rukhi located about a kilometre from Enguri Bridge, which connects Russia-occupied Abkhazia with the rest of Georgia. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said the new hospital will offer qualitative care to people living on both sides of the occupation line.
Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region confirmed its first case of the coronavirus yesterday. The de facto authorities of the region say that the infected individual is a 57-year-old man from Gagra who travelled to Russia. A 50-year-old woman from the region, who also travelled to Russia, is undergoing treatment on Tbilisi-controlled territory, after testing positive for the virus on March 30.
Civic activist Tamar Mearakishvili, who lives in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Akhalgori district, says that up to 10 people in the area have died due to delayed medical aid or other reasons related to the illegal closure of crossing points between breakaway Tskhinvali and the rest of Georgia 131 days ago.
Margo Martiashvili, who suffered a stroke in the Russian-controlled Akhalgori district, has died earlier today in the hospital of occupied Tskhinvali as her relatives were unable to transport her to the Tbilisi-controlled territory via the shortest route due to the closure of the so-called border.