PM: Community Transfer Rate Approaching 4%

When the community transfer rate will be 4% for 7 consecutive days, we will be able to baldly, but carefully and prudently, reopen the economy, - Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia, said at the Executive Government Meeting today.

He noted that the current trend gives us grounds to be cautiously optimistic.  

"We need to essentially consider an issue that concerns us all here and our citizens. It is the quick, safe, prudent and gradual reopening of our economy," he noted. 

“When the community transfer rate will be 4% for seven consecutive days, we will be able to carefully and prudently reopen the economy. The current trend gives us grounds to be cautiously optimistic.  That is why we need to start a discussion today on lifting the restrictions earlier if the trend is maintained for the coming week, as we managed to do last summer. It primarily applies to Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Rustavi. Reference is made here to education institutions to make sure that our children go to classes. It also relates to a gradual reopening of municipal transport, so that the achievements made as a result of our joint efforts in the last two months are not jeopardized. What is most important, we should do our best to maintain this achievement in a stable manner until we start a gradual reopening of the tourism sector. The economic team, led by Maya Tskitishvili, Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia, has been holding meetings with businesses for several days already to make sure that the reopening is sustainable, prudent and, most important, safeguarded,” the PM said. "Two, three, four or five thousand cases a day will not let us talk about normal economic performance. That is why we all – together with our citizens – need to make steps in a most responsible and reasonable manner."