Baku/29.08.20/Turan: On August 29, 188 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection were registered in Azerbaijan, 115 people were treated, cured and released.
According to the Operative Staff under the Cabinet of Ministers, two people died of coronavirus in the last day.
So far, a total of 36,174 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus infection in the country, of which 33,576 have been treated, 529 have died, and 2,069 are being treated in special hospitals.
During the last day, 6,384 tests were performed to detect new infections, and a total of 910,890 tests have been performed so far.
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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