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Georgia restricts business trips and education travels abroad due to coronavirus

09 March 2020 15:53 (UTC +04:00)

The Georgian Government has restricted the business trips to foreign countries of the employees of the state institutions in the framework of measures of fighting coronavirus (COVID 19), APA’s local bureau reports.

The decision has been adopted at the meeting of the Inter-institutional Coordination Council functioning under leadership of the Prime Minister Giorgi Gakhariya. The report says the restriction will also apply to the travels for education purpose, and the country’s Education, Science, Culture and Sport Ministry has been charged with informing the higher education institutions about this decision.

Note that today the infection of another two persons with coronavirus has been confirmed in Georgia. Thereby, the total number of the persons whose infection with this virus was confirmed has reached 15 countrywide.