Paata Imnadze: We are now waiting for the number of coronavirus cases to start reducing

We are now waiting for the number of cases to start reducing, - Paata Imnadze, Deputy Director of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, said after the end of the Interagency Coordination Council.

According to him, even under the conditions when Georgia ranks first in the world according to the rate of infection per 100 thousand inhabitants, the health care system has withstood this, but it would not have withstood more workload.

"Any restriction gives us results in two weeks. We have seen that we no longer have growth within two weeks of imposing restrictions. Despite testing more than twice as much, we no longer have an increase in new cases. We also saw that even under the conditions when Georgia ranks first in the world according to the rate of infection per 100 thousand inhabitants, the health care system has withstood this, but it would not have withstood more workload. That’s why we imposed restrictions and so far it seems that this has given us its result – we have stabilization. We have restrained the virus," Imnadze said.