Larsi border checkpoint employee tests positive for COVID-19 in Kakheti
Larsi border checkpoint employee tests positive for COVID-19 in Kakheti

A 27-year-old man, who works at Larsi border checkpoint, has tested positive for coronavirus in the village of Vejini, Gurjaani Municipality, said Manana Gogashvili, the head of Gurjaani Public Health Center.

Since morning the epidemiologists have been working in the village of Vejini.

As of August 9, nine new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Georgia, increasing the total number of infected people to 1225, according to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC).

Four more patients have recovered from the novel virus in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cured patients up to 1000.