Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze, urges the population to refrain from traveling to China, Iran, South Korea and Italy, except in special cases. As Gamkrelidze explained at the Cabinet meeting today, according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, travel is not prohibited, but caution is needed.

“Avoid traveling to the countries with many infected people. First of all, these are China, Iran, South Korea, Italy, and the 38 listed countries, but there are just few cases in some countries. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, travel is not forbidden, but we should be careful and take precautionary measures provided by the World Health Organization, ”Gamkrelidze said.

According to him, the main preventive measures against coronavirus are personal hygiene, frequent washing of hands, frequent wet cleaning and airing of rooms.