Archive - 29/12/2020

As of the morning of December 29, 87 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in the "red zones" of the Republican Multidisciplinary Medical Center (RMMC) of South Ossetia, Eleonora Dzhioeva, the chief infectious disease specialist of the Republic, told IA “Res " .

“Currently, there are 39 patients in the infectious building of the RMMC, and 48 in the building of the children's hospital. Three patients are in the intensive care unit,” the doctor said.

According to Dzhioeva, ten patients were admitted to the "red zone" over the past day, eight people were discharged.

76 tests for coronavirus infection, conducted the day before, revealed 18 newly diagnosed cases of the disease, Deputy Head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, Anna Gagloeva, told IA “Res " on Tuesday.

"The number of cases in the Republic since mid-September has reached 2280. Another 25 people have been removed from the register with a negative COVID-19 test, a total of 1515 citizens have been discharged from medical institutions," Gagloeva said. "765 people remain under medical supervision."

South Ossetia should not remain aloof from what is happening around the world, it is necessary to analyze the events taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria and other "hot spots", President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov said.

"It is necessary to analyze and understand what is needed for our Ministry of Defense to develop in science-intensive areas. Without this, we will not be able to move forward, without this it will be difficult to talk about the defense capability of our state," Bibilov said at the reporting meeting of the defense department.

The 51st round of Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia was the only one in person since the beginning of the pandemic, - the head of the South Ossetian delegation, the of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev told IA “Res ".

If during the year there were usually four rounds, then the coronavirus pandemic, which swept the whole world, including South Ossetia, made its own adjustments, and the discussions were held in the format of videoconferences.