TBILISI – At least 2,880 people contracted measles in Georgia in January-March, according to the head of the Georgian Health Ministry’s National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Amiran Gamkrelidze.
The outbreak continues, Gamkrelidze told the press on April 4.
“Despite a certain stabilization trend seen in the past month, i.e. growth slower than in January and early February, we are registering 15 to 20 new occurrences daily,” he said.
Sixty percent of the patients needed hospitalization, Gamkrelidze said.
“There have been two deaths this year,” he said, adding that timely inoculation was the only way to stop the spread of measles.
In early March, the Georgian Health Ministry reported 2,115 measles cases. In late January, the ministry said that the country was on the brink of a measles epidemic.
