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hospitals given low numbers of virus cases in earlier periods, the health system is likely to fail if the number of cases remains high for a longer period. Authorities are prepared for this, admitting that most patients will have to be treated other than in hospitals.
Each person must know who is their family doctor and their phone number, head of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze said addressing citizens after an Inter-Agency Coordination Council meeting, saying that only 15% to 25% of cases that require health care should be managed in hospitals, with others ascribed to ambulatory care centres.
2.4​ ​Georgia insists on using 1938 maps in border demarcation talks with Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has provided no arguments against using 1938 maps recently obtained by Georgia to resolve border issues between the two states, with its officials simply saying that “discussing the maps is not desirable to them, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Lasha Darsalia has said.
Darsalia was cited by IPN news agency as making the comment following his interrogation by prosecutors carrying out an investigation into the Georgia-Azerbaijan border case. Darsalia insisted there were grounds for considering the maps as the basis for negotiations.
“An earlier agreement with Azerbaijan [in the 1990s] said that the two countries should use the maps issued in 1938 to agree their borders. The 1938 maps we have sent to Azerbaijan have been studied by local experts and the documents are relevant. The issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the commission [with Azerbaijani colleagues]. The maps we have sent to Azerbaijan make valuable evidence,” Darsalia said.
On October 7, the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office detained two Georgian officials and former members of a state commission charged with demarcating Georgia’s border with Azerbaijan in relation to their alleged actions conducted against the national interest.
Prosecutors claimed that the detainees hid an original map issued in 1937-38 and instead used other maps based on which border sections between Georgia and Azerbaijan were agreed against the interests of Georgia in 2006 and 2007, leading to the forfeiting of around 3,500 hectares of lands, including part of the monastic complex David Gareji.
The internal political implications are not negligible as the situation gives the opportunity to the ruling Georgian Dream Party to blame Saakashvili’s party, United National Movement (UNM), for mismanaging border negotiations with Azerbaijan. UNM is Georgian Dream's main rival in the October 31 general election.
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