Amiran Gamkrelidze states that the deceased 15th patient was an 82 years old man who entered Georgia from a neighboring country

Amiran Gamkrelidze, Director of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, told InterPressNews that the 15th patient who died of coronavirus was an 82 old man.

According to Gamkrelidze, the deceased person was a Georgian citizen. As Gamkrelidze noted, he had entered Georgia from one of the neighboring countries.

The Director of the NCDC also stated that the deceased was in severe condition from the beginning and had accompanying diseases. Gamkrelidze added that the person in question had been connected to the ventilator for the past two weeks.

For the record, as stopcov.ge reports, 3 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Georgia during the last 24 hours, bringing the total number to 924. On the other hand. 4 more people have recovered from the virus, which brings the total number of recovered patients to 785.

2819 people are under a 14-day mandatory quarantine while 230 are under observation in hospitals. 15 people have died of the virus in the country. 3 citizens of Georgia have been transported to the country from abroad for a cure.