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The Tbilisi regime continues to take actions leading to escalating tensions on the South Ossetian-Georgian border, the South Ossetian State Security Committee reported on Thursday.

"So, on February 3 at 09:19, in the vicinity of the settlement of Diseu, Tskhinval district, a border guard detachment of the RSO KGB Border Guard Service, recorded an attempt to illegally enter the RSO by an unidentified Georgian police officer, who, having penetrated into the territory of South Ossetia about 20 meters, was monitoring the border zone, "the press service reported.

Over the past day, the number of coronavirus infection has increased by 15, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in the country reached 2 thousand 932, said on Thursday Deputy Head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Anna Gagloeva.

The day before, it was reported about 16 new patients were reported, the day before yesterday- about 3 patients.

"A total of 163 tests have been done in day, 15 of them were first detected. 4 people were removed from medical register," Gagloeva noted.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov instructed the Acting Health Minister Georgy Totchiev to work out the issues of vaccination against COVID-19. The head of state gave the order to the official during the meeting of the operational staff in Tskhinval on Wednesday.

“There is a demand among the population for vaccines, this is obvious. People who have not had the coronavirus do not want to get sick in the future. Therefore, work out this issue with your Russian colleagues, we have a corresponding agreement,” the President said.

The number of coronavirus cases in South Ossetia has increased by 16 over the past day and reached 2,917, Marina Kochieva, head of the Republic's Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res".

" 16 residents of the Republic have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in a day, a total of 169 have been tested for coronavirus, 17 people were removed from the register on Wednesday," Kochieva said. According to her, 833 people in the republic with coronavirus infection are currently under the supervision of doctors.

Ambassador of South Ossetia in Russia Znaur Gassiev met in Moscow with the Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Ivan Prostakov.

As the press service of the Embassy has informed IA "Res", during the meeting they discussed the prospects of interaction, concerning, in particular, the training of citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia in this educational institution, as well as possible cooperation with the South Ossetian State University.

The Gakheladze case is used as another pretext for repeating propaganda and deliberately false attacks, said Murat Dzhioev, the Plenipotentiary of the South Ossetian President for post-conflict settlement.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia announced an aerial reconnaissance of the American Global Hawk RQ-4B drone near the southern borders of the Republic and Russia.

The book of the head of the representative office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar, Candidate of History Sergey Manko, dedicated to the history of the development and formation of the Republic of South Ossetia, where he was in the diplomatic service, was published on the eve of the Day of the Diplomat, the representative office reports.

From 2017 to 2019 Sergey Manko was working as an Adviser to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia.

In January, 13 violators of legislation in the border area were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia (in December — 28), the press service of the KGB of the republic reports.

“Of the 13 detainees, eight were violators of the state border regime, and five were violators of the frontier regime. The border service of the State Security Committee of South Ossetia conducted proceedings on each fact of violation of legal regimes,” the KGB said.

The issues of bilateral cooperation between the ministries of agriculture of Russia and South Ossetia were discussed on Saturday by Acting Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev with Director of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Roman Nekrasov and President of the Association of Peasant (Farming) Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Igor Kadzaev.