We have specific PCR tests to identify Indian and other strains. Such a statement made today the Head of the National Center for Disease Control.

“We have 5 cases of Indian variant. Three foreign citizens have already left the country, while two Georgian citizens have entered isolation.

All of them had traveled to the Middle East but arrived in Georgia at different times in mid-May. All the contacts have already been identified.

Indian variant of COVID-19 has no special characteristics. Similar to the British, it is easily transmittable among adults. We should not panic. When the situation in India was particularly worrying for a month, the leading coronavirus variant was not Indian, but British one”, - explained Amiran Gamkrelidze.