Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

On Sunday In South Ossetia, 66 people have been tested for COVID-19, 12 of them tested positive, the republic's chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva told IA "Res" on Monday.

"There are another 12 new cases. A total of 206 citizens have fallen ill since the lifting of restrictions on the border with the Russian Federation (September 15)," she said.

Since April of this year, more than 6 thousand tests for COVID-19 have been carried out in the laboratory of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee.

Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia have defused an RPG-27 anti-tank rocket grenade found by local residents, the press service of the department told IA "Res".

"The call was from the eyewitness who reported about the find on the outskirts of the Shanghai micro district," the Emergencies Ministry said.

Sappers of the emergency department went to the scene and examined the found item, "it posed a serious danger."

The anti-tank grenade was taken to the test site and destroyed.

The opening of a trade mission of South Ossetia in Moscow will give an additional impetus to relations between the two countries in the field of trade and economic cooperation, said the Acting Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev.

"The Russian Federation is the main strategic partner of South Ossetia, with which we have established long-term and strong cultural and humanitarian ties, and interstate trade is developing," Bekoev told reporters, commenting on the opening of a trade mission in Russia.

In South Ossetia, 132 people have been tested for COVID-19, 30 tests showed a positive result, the fourth day in the Republic there is an increase in the number of cases, the chief sanitary doctor of the republic Marina Kochieva told IA "Res" on Friday.

"In a day 30 people have been detected a positive coronavirus result. In total, since the day the restrictions were lifted on the border with the Russian Federation (September 15), 137 citizens fell ill," she said.

President Anatoly Bibilov took part in a meeting of the Joint South Ossetian-Russian Demarcation Commission, the presidential press service reported.

For the South Ossetian part, the meeting was also attended by the Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Murat Dzhioev (Сhairman of the South Ossetian part of the Сommission), his Deputy Yegor Kochiev and Deputy Head of the KGB Border Service Sergei Tibilov.

The government of South Ossetia at a meeting on Wednesday adopted a resolution on the establishment Of a trade representative office of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation.

It was noted that in order to promote the foreign economic and foreign trade interests of South Ossetia and promote products manufactured in the Republic, as well as support local producers, Ministry of Economic Development proposed to establish a Trade Representation of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation, in particular, in Moscow.

During a day In South Ossetia, 81 people have been tested for COVID-19, of which 24 tests showed a positive result, an increase in the incidence of coronavirus has been observed for several days in a row the Republic's chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva told IA "Res" on Thursday

"Another 24 people confirmed the coronavirus, in a day. In total, since the day the restrictions on the border with the Russian Federation were lifted (September 15), 107 citizens fell ill, 5 of them recovered," she said.

During a day In South Ossetia, 95 people have been tested for COVID-19, of which 21 tests showed a positive result, the republic's chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva told IA "Res" on Wednesday.

"Another 21 citizens have been laboratory-confirmed with coronavirus, since the day the restrictions on the border with the Russian Federation were lifted (September 15) - 83", she said.

According to Kochieva, over the entire period of the pandemic on the morning of October 14, 173 cases of coronavirus were registered.

An evening of the Ossetian-Italian friendship was held in the Italian city of Gradara, organized by the representative office of the South Ossetian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy and the Italy-South Ossetia-Alania friendship Association, the press service of the Republic's Foreign Ministry reports.

Due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held in a remote-in-person format.

At the beginning of the event, the national anthems of South Ossetia and Italy were performed.

On October 18, the largest musical theater in Russia, the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, will host a gala concert of the opera singer, soloist of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of South and North Ossetia, laureate of the international competitions Veronika Dzhioeva. As Veronika Dzhioeva herself told IA "Res" the gala concert with the participation of the theater's opera troupe soloists will be dedicated to doctors and all medical workers of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region.