Digomi field hospital ‘temporarily closed’ as active Covid-19 cases ‘decrease’

A field hospital in Didi Digomi district of Tbilisi which was for 500 patients has been temporarily closed as active cases of coronavirus has decreased in the country ‘which is good news,’ head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze stated today. 

 

The new cases of coronavirus have slightly decreased to 4,031 in the past 24 hours, while active cases still stand at 55,573. 

 

Due to the surging figures of Covid-19 and a severe epidemiological situation in the country, France has put Georgia on its red list and demanded the full vaccination certificates from travellers. 

 

Gamkrelidze said that Digomi field hospital was mainly for triage, where patients were given first aid and those who needed it were inhaled with oxygen and then taken to clinics, or vice versa, returned for treatment at home.

 

He said that the field hospital will be reopened if there is the necessity. 

 

There are two other field hospitals in Tbilisi as clinics and hospitals were unable to admit more than 7,500 Covid-19 patients. 

 

Georgian health and government officials are hopeful that the figures will decrease starting mid-September. 

 

The opposition are accusing the government for a poor management of the epidemiological situation.