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A regular meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (MPRI) is taking place in the village of Ergnet bordering South Ossetia and Georgia, the office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for Post-conflict Settlement reported.

This is the first meeting this year. It was clarified, that during the dialogue, security issues, violations of the state border would be discussed, as well as an overview of the epidemiological situation in the region and the general epidemiological situation.

South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee detected 125 new cases of coronavirus in a day (81 a day earlier) these are the data of 284 tests conducted.,.

"To date, 471 residents of the Republic are under the supervision of doctors, 15 people have been removed from the medical register. The number of infected people has grown to 10,741 since the beginning of the pandemic, 10,270 have recovered, the IA" Res has been informed at the Committee on Thursday morning.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia continues to implement a set of measures to curb the channels of illegal movement of goods and cargo across the South Ossetian-Georgian state border, the press service of the department reported.

President Anatoly Bibilov has been revaccinated against coronavirus infection, the presidential press service reported.

On Tuesday, the head of state came for revaccination to the polyclinic of the RMMC in Tskhinval. After revaccination with the Russian Sputnik Light vaccine, Anatoly Bibilov is feeling well and continues his working day in accordance with his schedule.

The President noted the importance of mass vaccination as the only way to stop the spread of COVID-19. He has reminded that vaccination is needed to protect not only ourselves, but also those around us.

To date, 1,700 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 at the polyclinic of the Republican Multidisciplinary Medical Center of South Ossetia, Tamara Sanakoeva, the head of the outpatient medical center, told the IA “Res”

“Since the beginning of January, 92 people have been vaccinated against coronavirus, of which 70 patients were vaccinated with Sputnik Light and 22 with Sputnik V. Residents of the Republic had the opportunity to get the vaccine even during the holidays, as the employees were working as usual,” Sanakoeva said.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov held a number of meetings in the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation, during which issues of the implementation of the State Program for Socio- Economic Development of the Republic for 2022-2025 were discussed, the press service of the head of state reported on Friday.

"The issues of raising salaries for employees of the law enforcement agencies of South Ossetia in 2022 were also discussed," the press service notes.

In December 2021, 55 violators of the law in the border area were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia, the press service of the KGB of the republic reports on Thursday.

"Of them: 33 are violators of the regime of the state border, 22 - of the border regime," the agency clarifies. The Border Service of the State Security Committee conducted investigations on each fact of violation of legal regimes.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov congratulated Daniel Ortega on his assumption of the office of President of the Republic of Nicaragua, the press service of the head of state reported.

812 people who served in the Ossetian peacekeeping battalion from 1992 to 2009 began receiving monthly cash payments in 2021 in South Ossetia, another 190 will receive payments in the near future, Alan Dzhussoev, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office of South Ossetia, told the “Res” news agency.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has made a statement in connection with the situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

"With deep concern we are following the events unfolding over the past days in the Republic of Kazakhstan, where a number of regions have been engulfed in riots. The escalation of riots accompanied by acts of looting and vandalism, violent actions by the militants who seized weapons arsenals has led to the death of people," the head of state said in a statement issued on Saturday.