🌟🎄🎉 New Year's illumination was lit in Tbilisi.
There are huge, sometimes even hourly traffic jams in the center, many people go to the city center with children. Hundreds of people are walking on Rustaveli Avenue, everyone is happily photographing New Year decorations and the main Christmas tree at the Parliament. It feels like the mood is festive.

🦠 11.11. Coronavirus statistics in Georgia per day:
Tests carried out - 57978.
The incidence rate is 6.11% (-0.71%)
+3542 infected
+2234 recovered
+64 died
+11184 vaccinated
❗️ Doctors say that there are signs of stabilization of the epidemiological situation in the country, but the number of deaths from covid remains at a high level, which is associated with the number of new cases and a low level of vaccination.

🇬🇪❗️🇺🇦 Over thepast 24 hours, politicians and countries have been actively discussing the accession of Georgia and Ukraine to NATO.
Here are a few statements from the past evening and night:
📍NATO should "disavow" (cancel) the 2008 decision that Georgia and Ukraine will become members of the alliance in the future - (Russian Foreign Ministry).
📍NATO is not ready to give up the right of Ukraine and Georgia to join the alliance, but is ready to sit down with Russia at the negotiating table — (NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg).
📍NATO membership is Georgia's sovereign decision based on the unwavering will of the majority of the Georgian population. This goal is also reflected in the Constitution of the country - (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia).

❤️ A video about one of the regions of Georgia - Samegrelo, was among the winners of the competition of the UN World Tourism Organization.
This was told by Deputy Minister of Economy Mariam Kvrivishvili:
«Georgia and especially Samegrelo won. The video was created with the help of a partner from USAID, for which we thank them very much!»
📽 Canyons, fortresses, temples and, of course, people - in one small video.

🦠 12.11. Coronavirus statistics in Georgia per day:
Tests carried out - 35841.
The incidence rate is 8.15% (+2.03%)
+2922 infected
+4999 recovered
+36 died
+6817 vaccinated
❗️The head of the immunization group, Ivane Chkhaidze, said that 98.9% of the 5,500 deaths in Georgia from March 15 to October 1 were not vaccinated - this unequivocally confirms that vaccination protects against death.

🐶 Batumi City Hall will spend 351.7 thousand lari ($110,000) for the care of homeless animals.
According to the tender documentation, the winning company will have to take care of 2,600 stray cats and dogs registered in Batumi. The duties will include "trapping and transportation, sterilization, castration, nutrition, vaccination-related procedures, euthanasia of an animal admitted to the clinic if necessary (humane euthanasia with anesthesia), treatment of injured animals."
At the same time, a "hotline" should work in a veterinary clinic that wishes to participate in the tender.
❗️ The new mayor of Batumi Archil Chikovani promises to personally monitor the process of fulfilling the state order and the situation with homeless animals in the city.

💉🚫 A march and rally of opponents of mandatory vaccination and covid passports, already traditional for Sunday, took place in Tbilisi.
For an action under the slogan "No to covid-fascism" several thousand people came out. From the First Republic Square in the center of the capital, they marched to the government office, where they held a rally demanding the cancellation of covid passports. The participants of the action held posters, photos depicting crossed-out QR codes and photos of doctors, as well as icons.

🦠 13.11. Coronavirus statistics in Georgia per day:
Tests carried out - 35841.
The incidence rate is 7.18% (-0.98%)
+1527 infected
+4588 recovered
+46 died
+2500 vaccinated
❗️Starting today, the rules of isolation protocols in kindergartens are changing in Georgia: contacts there will be divided into high and low levels of infection, and toys must be disinfected before being given to children.

✊ The Georgian opposition has announced the date of a large-scale protest action.
The rally will take place on 21.12.21 at 18-00 in the center of Tbilisi. It is tied to the birthday of the country's ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili and the main demand of the action will be his release.

❗️The Ministry of Education of Georgia has announced the dates of the winter holidays.
📍in kindergartens from December 31 to January 17
📍in public and private schools from December 30 to January 17

❗️ After spontaneous mass celebrations in Tbilisi, residents of Georgia were urged to celebrate the New Year modestly in order to prevent another jump in the incidence of coronavirus in January.
The corresponding statement was made by the head of the Center for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze.
«I wish everyone the end of the pandemic in 2022, but still everyone should try to make this New Year as modest as possible, avoid large gatherings, use a mask, whether it is closed or open space. Comply with regulations, and access to public places is carried out only on "green passports", whether it is a general gathering or a concert for children," the medic said.
🧪 At the moment, several cases of covid-19 infection are being investigated in Georgia for a new strain of omicron, and epidemiologists predict that it may soon displace previously studied variations of the virus in the country.

🦠 14.12. Coronavirus statistics in Georgia per day:
Tests carried out - 53255.
The incidence rate is 7.49% (+0.31%)
+3988 infected
+3722 recovered
+49 died
+10948 vaccinated
❗️The head of the vaccination commission, Ivane Chkhaidze, said that two doses of vaccinations from the new omicron strain are not enough and the emphasis is on the third (booster). According to epidemiologists, in two months, omicron will significantly replace the delta strain.

🛫 The Tbilisi City Court granted the request of the Georgian airline Myway Airlines to resume work.
The decision of the civil Aviation Agency, which took away the license from Myway Airlines due to the sale of shares to a foreign citizen, has been suspended.
❗️ However, the general reputation of the airline was not at a high level before (flight cancellations, poor service), and now it will be even more difficult for them to return customers.

🏗🚘 An agreement has been signed on the start of construction of the Tbilisi-Sagarejo highway.
A high-speed four-lane road with a length of 35.2 kilometers will become part of the transit corridor leading to the north-western region of Azerbaijan.
The total cost of construction will be $211 million. The approximate date of commissioning is 2 years.

⚡️🎰 The gambling business of Georgia cancels all types of sponsorship of local sports and championships.
Let me remind you that on December 13, a bill on new gambling rules was submitted to the Parliament. They provide for a significant (up to 70%) increase in the tax burden, a complete ban on advertising (except for sponsorship) and an increase in the age limit for players under 25, a ban on games for the socially unprotected and civil servants.
❗️The bill is being considered in an accelerated manner and this week the Parliament intends to approve it.
💰The amounts of investments from sponsorship are estimated at tens of millions of lari.