21 of 25 ambulance doctors infected with COVID-19 in Georgia from Bolnisi
Marneuli and Bolnisi municipalities have been on coronavirus lockdown since late March. Photo: Interior Ministry press office.
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Twenty-one of 25 infected ambulance doctors around the country are from Bolnisi municipality in eastern Georgia, which is inhabited mostly by ethnic minorities.
Head of the Emergency Situation Coordination Centre Amiran Gogitidze says that it remains unknown how the ambulance doctors in Bolnisi contracted the virus.
We do not know whether they got infected from a patient or from their family members,” Gogitidze said, adding that one of the ambulance doctors from Bolnisi showed symptoms of the virus earlier than others and he might have been the source of infection for several of his colleagues.
Gogitidze said that the ambulance doctor in Tbilisi who is infected with the coronavirus contracted the virus from a family member.
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