Zurab Azarashvili: The coronavirus is an ordinary, seasonal virus and no more special attention should be paid to it

Today, around the world, the coronavirus is perceived as a common, seasonal virus. There is no reason for alarm or panic. Special attention should not be paid to it. As you know, a few months ago, we even stopped recording individual cases, because there is no real need for it. The fact that Covid pandemic was coming to an end and would turn into one of the usual seasonal viruses, I was still talking about it in 2022. Today, it is really so, Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili said.

As Zurab Azarashvili pointed out, assigning a name to any new variant of the coronavirus, be it EG.5 or another, is a subject of scientific research. According to the Minister, the provision of information about such details may be too stressful for the population, for which there is no real basis today.

"Nothing special is really happening. If, in this regard, something changes, the population will first receive information from the Ministry of Health. What was happening in previous years in terms of the spread of the coronavirus has become a thing of the past, and today there is no reason for its repetition. I want to call and ask everyone who seems as if paying more attention to the population than the government of Georgia, and in this case, we, the Ministry of Health, not to try to create tension in society, not to focus on the names of new sub-strains. Today, the coronavirus is a common, seasonal infection, the like of which we meet at different times of the year," Zurab Azarashvili told Imedi TV.