A fatal and serious mistake was not made, but there might be gaps, - the head of the National Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze said after the meeting of the Inter-Agency Coordination Council.
"I always say that if you work, you may have gaps in the process. No fatal mistake was made during the management of COVID-19. All agencies are working in line with the existed resources in the country. If we had a rate of this type of infection in the spring, the health care system would have collapsed quickly. The country could not withstand 4-5 thousand infected people a day, so serious restrictive measures were needed at that time to be prepared. I also take personal responsibility for anything that has been wrong. A fatal and serious mistake was not made, but there might be gaps," Amiran Gamkrelidze said.
According to Gamkrelidze, we must not compare with Finland and Switzerland, because these countries are developed differently.
"I have many shortcomings in my work. We compare with Switzerland, Norway, Finland and say why they keep low rates. The answer is, they are Finland and Norway. We are a medium, low-income country. You should have a claim on what resources we have, "said Amiran Gamkrelidze.
