TBILISI – Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze has contracted COVID-19, the press service for the Georgian Health Ministry said on June 1.
According to the press service, the minister is feeling fine, is self-isolating and continuing to work remotely.
Ministry employees who had contacts with Tikaradze were also required to self-isolate, it said.
The Georgian health minister got inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine live on air in late March.
According to the Georgian Health Ministry, 1,233 new COVID-19 cases and 31 deaths were recorded in the country in the past 24 hours.
As many as 345,196 cases have been recorded in total in Georgia since the beginning of the pandemic and 4,804 deaths were recorded.
In the meantime, Amiran Gamkrelidze, the director of the Georgian Health Ministry’s National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, told journalists on June 1 that a case of the “South African” coronavirus strain was confirmed in Georgia. The Health Ministry also said last week that five cases of the “Indian” strain had been detected.
