Georgia Update – 23rd of September, 2021

Rorshok's weekly ten-minute update of all things Georgian - news, events and the latest happenings. On October 2nd, voters will elect 64 mayors and over 2,000 city council members. The tightest election is expected in Tbilisi, where Otsneba party’s Kakhi Kaladze, the head of Natsebi party, Nika Melia and former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia face-off at the polls. As of this week, 1.7 million individuals in Georgia have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and about 750,000 people have been fully vaccinated. The country continues to have over 1,500 daily coronavirus cases. Most of the confirmed cases are recorded in Tbilisi, Adjara and Imereti. Earlier this week, the Georgian Government and Caucasus Nature Fund signed an agreement to support the creation of five new protected areas in Shida Kartli, Racha, Svaneti, Samegrelo and Guria. The project is financially supported by the Wyss Foundation, as part of the foundations’ 'Campaign for Nature'', a 1 billion US dollar program to accelerate locally-driven efforts to safeguard biodiversity. Caucasus Nature Fund will allocate up to 4.65 million US dollars for the project implementation. These stories and more in this week’s update. 

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