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South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov on Thursday signed a decree declaring mourning on the Memorial Day for the victims of the Ossetian genocide on June 20.

"Expressing grief and paying tribute to the dead victims of the Ossetian genocide, expressing condolence to their families and friends, I decree: to declare June 20, 2020 as a day of mourning in the Republic of South Ossetia," the decree of the head of state says.

According to the decree, on the day of mourning throughout the Republic of South Ossetia, the state flags will be lowered.

Studies carried out over the past 24 hours in the laboratory of the Committee for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in South Ossetia showed a negative result, the Deputy head of the Committee Anna Gagloeva told IA “Res” on Wednesday.

The first three cases of COVID-19 infection in the Republic were recorded on May 5. In total, there are 66 coronavirus patients during this period, of whom 34 have recovered and are discharged to date.

All 55 coronavirus tests over the past 24 hours in the laboratory of the Committee for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in South Ossetia showed a negative result, the Сommittee’s Deputy head Anna Gagloeva told IA “Res” on Tuesday.

The first three cases of COVID-19 infection in the Republic were recorded on May 5. In total, during this period, there are 66 coronavirus patients, of whom 34 have recovered and are discharged to date.

The Ossetian diaspora in Turkey sent the humanitarian aid needed in the fight against COVID-19 to their homeland in Ossetia.

As reported to IA Res by the Minister of Health and Social Affairs of the Republic, Georgy Totchiev, humanitarian aid includes personal protective equipment: a thousand reusable masks, 630 protective suits, 330 respirators.

The assistance was provided with the assistance of Sadrettin Kusov, Chairman of the Ossetian society. Ministry of Health expressed gratitude to the Diaspora, noting that the Republic needs stocks of protective equipment.

Over the past day, in the laboratory of the Committee for the Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being of South Ossetia, were conducted 31 tests for coronavirus, all of them showed a negative result, Deputy head of the Committee Anna Gagloeva told IA “Res “on Monday. The total number of tests for coronavirus is 1710.

Over the past day, tests for coronavirus showed a positive result in 8 cadets who arrived from Russia and a nurse, all of them were in quarantine, Deputy head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Anna Gagloeva told IA "Res” on Sunday.

Gagloeva has noted that two more people recovered and were discharged from the hospital the day before.

Over the past day, 61 tests were conducted in the laboratories of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee (in total 1615), all of them showed a negative result, Deputy head of the Committee Anna Gagloeva IA "Res” on Saturday.

On June 6, there were 26 coronavirus patients in the Tskhinval infectious diseases hospital, "among them 19 cadets, 5 citizens who arrived from Vladikavkaz, one serviceman and one person from the medical staff."

Over the past day in South Ossetia, 12 new cases of coronavirus were detected among the arrived cadets who were quarantined in medical institutions, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res ”on Friday.

“In the laboratory of the Republican Medical Center over the past day, 27 tests (1529 in total) were conducted, 12 of them showed a positive result. All new sick cadets arrived from Russia,” Gagloeva clarified.

On Friday, during a video conference with the co-chairs and co-moderators of discussions - representatives of the UN, OSCE and the European Union the participants of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva International Discussions on Security in Transcaucasia discussed security issues.

Security issues related to the situation in the areas adjacent to the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia were discussed during a videoconference.

On Thursday, an online dialogue took place between Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for Post-Conflict Resolution Murat Dzhioev and his Deputy, head of the South Ossetian delegation in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM), Yegor Kochiev, with the recently assumed head of the EU Observer Mission in Georgia, Marek Schigel.