Subject: RE: URGENT Covid 19 Georgia, safety recommendations for imported food from high risk countries
From: Tamar Gabunia </O=EXCHORGANIZATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=E6CA04F38EC94D0CADAB9CBDF90FCDDE-TAMAR G>
To: Marine Baidauri </o=ExchOrganization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=d4eb81559a6747338929ab76fb710c4f-Marine>; Ekaterine Adamia </o=ExchOrganization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=89b4d31758d34f2cbdcfe688199f6941-Ekateri>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:53:09 +0000

კი ბატონო ძალიან კარგი, შეინახეთ საფუძვლის სახით ეს კომუნიკაცია!

From: Marine Baidauri
Sent: 2 March, 2020 13:18
To: Ekaterine Adamia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Subject: FW: URGENT Covid 19 Georgia, safety recommendations for imported food from high risk countries

From: HOEJSKOV, Peter Sousa [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 02 March, 2020 13:00
To: Marine Baidauri
Cc: EURO2019nCoV; COUTINHO REHSE, Ana Paula; DOMENTE, Silviu; ESENAMANOV, Vasily
Subject: RE: URGENT Covid 19 Georgia, safety recommendations for imported food from high risk countries

Dear Marine,

Your message below to Ana Paula was brought to my attention.

Please be informed that based on the current information available about COVID-19, WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions. So far, there is no indication or evidence that COVID-19 transmits through fruits, vegetables, frozen goods or any other food product. From a public health and food safety perspective, you may wish to apply normal food import measures to the products at the border to Iran.

WHO is working closely with global experts, governments and partners to rapidly expand the scientific knowledge on this new virus, to track the spread and virulence of the virus, and to provide advice to countries and the global community on measures to protect health and prevent the spread of this outbreak. With escalating COVID-19 outbreaks outside of China, the situation is closely monitored and the recommendation may change.

For more detailed information about WHO’s recommendations to reduce risk of transmission of emerging pathogens from animals to humans in live animal markets, please see https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/who-recommendations-to-reduce-risk-of-transmission-of-emerging-pathogens-from-animals-to-humans-in-live-animal-markets

For technical guidance on COVID-19, please see https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or need additional information.

Best regards

Peter Sousa Hoejskov
Technical Officer - Food Safety & Zoonotic Diseases

Infectious Hazard Management

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

UN City, Marmorvej 51

DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Office: +45 45 33 71 55 (GPN 77155)

Mobile: +45 9117 4535

E-mail: [email-masked]

From: Marine Baidauri <[email-masked]>
Sent: Monday, March 2, 2020 8:37 AM
To: COUTINHO REHSE, Ana Paula <[email-masked]>
Subject: URGENT Covid 19 Georgia, safety recommendations for imported food from high risk countries

Dear Ana Paula,

I hope you are doing well, We have few questions concerning  safety of imported food from high risk countries and would appreciate your help.

What are the regulations regarding Food products imported form high risk countries?

For example We have trucks coming from Iran on the border, loaded with fruits and vegetables, we can switch the drivers on the border and disinfect the trucks from outside, what are the recommendations about different types (fruits and vegetables, frozen goods) of  products in the containers.

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards,

Marine Baidauri

Chief Specialist

Health policy Division of Policy Department

Ministry of  Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied

Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

144 Tsereteli ave., 0159 Tbilisi, Georgia
Cell phone: +995 591103061
E-mail: [email-masked]