Archive - 13/5/2020

Another videoconference of participants of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva international security discussions in Transcaucasia with the co-chairs and co – moderators of the discussions - representatives of the UN, OSCE and the European Union-took place on Wednesday, the office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary for post-conflict settlement reported.

As noted by the department, during the video conference there was a discussion of the situation in connection with the coronavirus epidemic.

The intensive care unit of the South Ossetian multidisciplinary medical center received humanitarian aid in the form of consumables for ventilators from the head of the branch of “Intersedzhikal " firms from Moscow Georgy Parastaev, the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic told IA Res.

According to the chief anesthesiologist-resuscitator Alexander Pliev, the help received will be enough for the department for several years.

Over the past day, South conducted 24 tests for coronavirus, two of them turned out to be positive, all the rest were negative. Thus, on the morning of May 13, 25 cases of COVID-19 infection were registered in the Republic, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res " on Wednesday.

"The coronavirus was laboratory confirmed in a student of the Russian military university and a citizen of the Republic who arrived via the Foreign Ministry. They were in quarantine," Gagloeva said.