Amiran Gamkrelidze: The third wave is starting in the country

According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, the third wave of coronavirus is starting in Georgia. He told InterPressNews about it.

"It can be said that the third wave is starting in the country, if we can not deter it by following the rules and recommendations", - said Gamkrelidze.

For information, according to stopcov.ge, as part of the intensive testing, 24,823 tests were conducted across the country in the last 24 hours, including 16,878 antigen tests and 7,945 PCR tests. As a result of the testing, 707 new cases of virus were detected in the last 24 hours. The total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country amounts to 288,396. As of April 10, the daily positive rate is 2.85%, for the last 14 days - 2.26%, and for 7 days - 2.50%.