Archive - 2020

The operational headquarters of South Ossetia for countering coronavirus infection will develop conditions for quarantine at the hospital for those citizens of the Republic who are outside and want to come home. In particular, at a meeting of the staff on Friday, April 10, chief sanitary doctor Marina Kochieva proposed to organize hospital wards under quarantine with the provision of food, hygiene items and free Internet to all citizens who are going to come to South Ossetia from Russia.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia posted on the official website of the department the information for citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia returning from their business trips, private trips, as well as students of Russian universities entering the country on vacation.

Despite the current restrictions related to measures to counteract the spread of coronavirus infection and repeatedly provided information about the possible negative consequences if it penetrates the territory of the Republic, the KGB of South Ossetia records an increase in smuggling activities across the state border with Georgia.

Crossing the border of the Republic through the checkpoint "Ruck" will be carried out only from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The government of South Ossetia, in order to ensure the sanitary-epidemiological situation in the Republic, adopted on Friday a new resolution to restrict the passage through the border with Russia from 00:00 April 13 to 23.59 May 1. Crossing the border of the Republic through the checkpoint "Ruck" will be carried out only from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The meeting is chaired by President Anatoly Bibilov.

In South Ossetia, the number of citizens who are self-isolated at home and in hospital has decreased. According to the data on the morning of April 10, the number of citizens on self-isolation at home is 449, said Anna Gagloeva, the Republic's Deputy sanitary doctor, to IA “Res”.

“Four people remain under the supervision of medical workers in hospitals of Tskhinval , three of them in the isolation ward, one in the Znaur district hospital,” Gagloeva said.

April 1 at 21.00 on the channel https://www.youtube.com/c/dastheaterkiel will be broadcast the opera "Aida" by Verdi in the production of the Kiel Theater (Germany). The main part is performed by the People's Artist of South and North Ossetia, Honored Artist of Russia Veronika Dzhioeva, which experts call the best Aida of the modern opera scene.

The world's leading opera houses during the pandemic broadcast performances on the Internet, the illustrious opera singer said in a commentary to IA “Res.”

A hundred years have passed since the genocide unleashed by Georgia against the Ossetians in 1920. Witnesses of those terrible events are not alive, but their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren remember well the stories of the elders, who had to experience the whole horror of the Georgian fascism, which originated in those distant years. And to be more precise - Georgian Nazism has deeper historical roots.

Twelve tests conducted on April 8 in the laboratory of the South-Ossetian Committee for Supervision of Consumer Protection, showed a negative result, - said the chief sanitary doctor of the Republic Marina Kochieva to IA "Res " .

According to the data on the morning of April 9, provided by the country's chief epidemiologist, there are 459 people in self-isolation at home, seven people are under medical supervision in hospitals - six in the infection department of Tskhinval and one in the Znaur district hospital.

In general, the situation in South Ossetia is stable, as of the morning of April 8, there is not a single patient with coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the Republic, the chief sanitary doctor of the Republic, Marina Kochieva, told IA "Res".

According to her, 470 people are on self-isolation, seven people are under the supervision of doctors in hospitals of the Republic. “Of these, six are in the infectious ward of the Republican Medical Center in Tskhinval, and one in the Znaur district hospital,” Kochieva said.

On April 8, Constitution Day is celebrated in South Ossetia. The basic law of the Republic was adopted at the national referendum in 2001