Paata Imnadze: Don’t go to church in order to save our church

Today, the whole of Georgia is a risk group, we may find ourselves in the same situation as Italy, - said Paata Imnadze, Deputy Head of the National Center for Disease Control.

According to him, social distancing is necessary even in the family, not to mention outside, and if we do not all understand this, "we will have a disaster in Georgia soon."

“People should understand that if we do not stay at home, we will not survive and we will have a high number of victims. We all need to understand this,” Paata Imnadze said on the Public Broadcaster.

Ahead of the coming religious holiday, Paata Imnadze called on parishioners not to go to churches.

“I understand that this is our tradition, but let’s refuse it once in order to survive, in order to save the church - don’t go to church in order to save our church!”, Imnadze said.

According to him, internal spreading of the disease has already started in the country, meaning that there are asymptomatic people around us who do not know that they are infected.

“We will no be able to count coffins in Georgia - do we want this? Stay at home”, said Imnadze.