A meeting of the special coronavirus headquarters will be held in occupied Abkhazia today, where additional decisions will be taken regarding Gali, Abkhaz media reports. According to them, the situation in the region is calm at this time.

The de facto regime tightened quarantine measures after a woman transported from Gali to Zugdidi tested positive for coronavirus. According to Abkhaz media, all the entrances to Gali are blocked and the population is not allowed to leave the region.

The local media reported that the infected woman arrived in Adler from Moscow on March 29 and crossed the "Russian-Abkhaz border". She soon developed symptoms of the virus, after which she went to a local hospital, where it was decided to send the woman to Georgia.