Coronavirus death toll increases in Georgia

The novel coronavirus infection has claimed eight lives in the past 24 hours in Georgia, the official stopcov.ge website reports.

The novel coronavirus infection has claimed 201 lives in Georgia.

A total of 28,431 confirmed cases (1,928 new) have been observed in Georgia so far.

Six hundred four patients have recovered, and the number of recovered totaled 10,767.

Georgia observed the first case of the novel coronavirus infection on February 26, 2020.

The World Health Organization declared the pandemic on March 11.

The pneumonia-causing infection outbreak began in China in December 2019.

On January 21, 2020, China confirmed the virus's human-to-human transmission and declared a quarantine in its two cities.