Foreign Policy: Georgia’s Successful Response to COVID-19 is Unexpected

Lessons from Taiwan, Canada, South Korea, Georgia, and Iceland show that the coronavirus can be stopped, reads the article published by Foreign Policy.

The American magazine Foreign Policy has devoted an article to the countries that have succeeded in fighting COVID-19.

The author of the article notes that the success of some countries was unexpected. 

“Some success stories are unexpected. On the Don’t Touch Your Face podcast, Foreign Policy’s Amy Mackinnon singled out the early response of the country of Georgia. Despite its small size and a struggling economy, the country began taking serious measures at the end of February, including closing schools and conducting widespread diagnostic tests. Georgia has so far no confirmed deaths from COVID-19,“ the article reads.

"I think the fact that the government took it seriously from the very start has helped,” the Georgian journalist Natalia Antelava told Mackinnon. So has Georgia’s mindset. “This is a country that is used to a crisis, and it is a country that has lived through civil wars and the Russian invasion in 2008 and a very dark period through the ’90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Antelava said.

The latest data shows that the total number of cases of coronavirus infection has increased to 148 in Georgia. 

5550 people are in quarantine and 281 under examination in hospitals. 

27 out of 148 people have recovered.

Fortunately, no fatalities have been reported so far. 

Author: Amy Mackinnon

Source: foreignpolicy.com