Archive - 2020

The Foreign Minister of South Ossetia, Dmitry Medoev, in a commentary to IA Res told about the process of returning citizens from Russia to the Republic and conditions of quarantine.

Dmitry Nikolaevich, taking into account the current situation with the coronavirus pandemic and temporary closure of the border, how is the issue of transportation of citizens of the Republic to their homeland solved?

South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov signed an instrument of ratification confirming that the South Ossetian side has conducted internal procedures for the Republic of South Ossetia to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Convention to Combat Extremism, the press service of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry reported.

Earlier on March 20, the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia ratified the Law of the Republic of South Ossetia “On the Accession of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Convention of the Shanghai Organization for Combating Extremism”.

Over the past day, South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee conducted 48 tests (568 in total), of which 5 gave a positive result for coronavirus, all the rest were negative. Thus, on the morning of May 14, 30 cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection were confirmed in the laboratory of the Republic, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Сcommittee, told IA "Res" on Thursday.

Another videoconference of participants of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva international security discussions in Transcaucasia with the co-chairs and co – moderators of the discussions - representatives of the UN, OSCE and the European Union-took place on Wednesday, the office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary for post-conflict settlement reported.

As noted by the department, during the video conference there was a discussion of the situation in connection with the coronavirus epidemic.

The intensive care unit of the South Ossetian multidisciplinary medical center received humanitarian aid in the form of consumables for ventilators from the head of the branch of “Intersedzhikal " firms from Moscow Georgy Parastaev, the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic told IA Res.

According to the chief anesthesiologist-resuscitator Alexander Pliev, the help received will be enough for the department for several years.

Over the past day, South conducted 24 tests for coronavirus, two of them turned out to be positive, all the rest were negative. Thus, on the morning of May 13, 25 cases of COVID-19 infection were registered in the Republic, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South-Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, told IA "Res " on Wednesday.

"The coronavirus was laboratory confirmed in a student of the Russian military university and a citizen of the Republic who arrived via the Foreign Ministry. They were in quarantine," Gagloeva said.

Ministry of Health and Social Development of South Ossetia, by order of President Anatoly Bibilov, provided the Fund with humanitarian aid in the form of food for the wounded who became disabled during the fighting in South Ossetia from 1989 to 2008.,” said Madina Plieva, head of the Fund.

Agreements signed in Moscow on the procedure for providing financial assistance and support for investment activities, as well as on the procedure for providing financial assistance for socio-economic development are of great importance for South Ossetia, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.

“The implementation of the provisions of the signed documents is directly related to improving the quality of life of residents of the Republic,” said Anatoly Bibilov in a comment to IA “Res.”

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov instructed the Attorney General Uruzmag Dzhagaev to ensure that supervision of the implementation of restrictive measures not to be weakened, but strengthened.

“There is joint work between the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Health, but the order for drug provision should not be put off, and we should already have a complete picture on this issue. The interaction between departments and ministries should be strengthened,” the President said.

As of the morning of May 12, the total number of quarantined people is 300 people,” said Marina Kochieva, chief sanitary officer at a meeting of the operational headquarters.

“There are 155 people at the Republican Medical Center, 29 at the hotel “Alan” and 18 of them are citizens and 11 drivers. In the districts of the Republic there are 73 citizens. In addition, another 18 cadets arrived in the evening of May 11, of which 7 were placed in the infectious diseases hospital and 11 in the Dzau district hospital,” she said.