The process of home treatment of patients infected with coronavirus has started in Batumi.
According to Nona Efadze, the deputy director of the Adjara Public Health Center, there are patients already undergoing treatment at home while being under doctors' supervision. She explained the difference between the patients who cannot be treated at home and those who can.
"This is the second day the home treatment processes strictly prescribed by the protocol, started. Those who get treated at home are mild and asymptomatic cases. As for pregnant women, people with chronic diseases, the elderly, children, and other categories can not be treated at home," Efadze said.
Out of two hundred and twenty-seven new patients tested positive on coronavirus in Georgia, 165 are from the Adjara region.
Sixty-nine patients defeated the virus today, increasing the total number to 1 643.
41 Georgian citizens have been transferred from abroad for medical treatment.
Twenty-four people died as a result of the virus in Georgia.
The first case of coronavirus got detected on February 26, 2020, in Georgia.
The World Health Organization recognized coronavirus as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
The outbreak of pneumonia in China began in December of 2019.
China confirmed that coronavirus was contagious and declared quarantine in two cities on January 21.
