Amiran Gamkrelidze : Patrol police to get involved in monitoring of self-isolated and quarantined citizens

Amiran Gamkrelidze, Head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, says the patrol police will get involved in the monitoring of the people who are in the self-isolation and quarantine.

Amiran Gamkrelidze said at the briefing on Tuesday that the decision had been made by the government.

“One of our main problems is monitoring of people, who are in self-isolation. It has been decided by the government that the patrol police of the Interior Ministry will provide a serious support in monitoring of self-isolated people as well as of those people who are in the quarantine. We have repeatedly urged the people who are in self-isolation or quarantine to show a high degree of civic responsibility not to violate this quarantine or self-isolation as it is linked to the safety of their health, the safety of those around them and the whole sociey. Implementation of these types of measures during epidemics is one of the main tools, ”Gamkrelidze said.

According to him, there are 178 people in quarantine at the moment, and 1108 people have been recommended to self-isolate themselves.