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The ban also applies to trucks

The border of South Ossetia with the Russian Federation will be closed from 00.00 hours May 10, 2020 to 23.59 hours May 17, 2020. According to the press service of the head of state, such a decision was made at a meeting of the operational headquarters to counteract the coronavirus infection COVID-19.

A temporary ban on border crossing applies to all citizens without exception. The ban also applies to trucks.

Two more cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in South Ossetia, said Marina Kochieva, the main sanitary doctor, to IA "Res ".

In the morning at a meeting of the operational headquarters on May 6, t was announced the first case of coronavirus infection.

Two more cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed among residents of South Ossetia who arrived in Tskhinval the day before, May 5.

In South Ossetia, the first case of coronavirus infection was detected in a man who entered the republic on April 30 from the Russian Federation.

"He was in quarantine, after which he had a fever, a test was carried out and it turned out to be positive, the man was isolated in a separate box in the infectious diseases hospital," said the chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva at a headquarters meeting.

She has emphasized that all security measures are being taken, everyone with whom he contacted will be isolated.

According to the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, 84 people are in quarantine on the morning of May 5 in South Ossetia. According to the chief sanitary doctor of the Republic, Marina Kochieva, 77 people are under medical supervision.

“Of these, 36 people are under the supervision of doctors in the isolation ward of the Republican Multidisciplinary Medical Center in Tskhinval, in the isolation ward - 16 and in the hospital of the village of Dzau - 25 people, “said Kochieva to IA “Res “.

A working meeting between the Interior Minister Igor Naniev and Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev took place on Monday at the Republic’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the press service of the department, the meeting was attended by the director of the information and coordination center of the internal affairs bodies of South Ossetia and Russia Alan Bolataev, the head of the department of legal support and international cooperation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Artur Siukaev.

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev has received the newly appointed head of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Republic of South Ossetia Carmen Echezarreta.

As noted by the Envoy`s Office, during the conversation, were discussed issues of the ICRC’s humanitarian activities in the current conditions in South Ossetia, especially in the areas bordering Georgia.

The next group of South Ossetian citizens who arrived in the Republic 10 days ago was tested for coronavirus, they all showed a negative result, there are no cases of coronavirus infection in the Republic,” said Marina Kochieva, head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, to IA “Res”.

“On Saturday, tests were carried out in our laboratory for a third group of citizens who are quarantined for 10 days, which is 13 people who arrived from Russia on April 23. The test results are all negative,” Kochieva said.

While the authorities and the opposition in Georgia are arguing about the number of cases, the total quarantine methods used in Georgia have caused a series of hunger riots in Marneuli, Bolnisi, Caspi, Khashur districts, Adjara and other regions, a member of the expert council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Yuri Vazagov noted during a briefing in Tskhinval.

Yuri Vazagov, member of the expert council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, held a press briefing in Tskhinval for journalists: “Georgia in a pandemic: problems and prospects.”

As noted by Vazagov, the coronavirus pandemic that swept Georgia, revealed a number of persistent trends caused by both domestic and foreign policy factors.

The Georgian authorities are concerned about the denial of accusations against the Lugar laboratory, built with American money and serving primarily Pentagon contractors, and are trying to defend the laboratory’s image, said Yuri Vazagov, a member of the expert council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, during a briefing.