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It added that the clinical course had been favorable, with most children already recovering and expected to return to their normal routines soon.<br \/>The NCDC said it had joined the investigation after cases of gastroenteritis among kindergarten children were identified on Sept. 17.<br \/>Health Minister Mikheil Sarjveladze said on Saturday that none of the hospitalized children had suffered complications or faced any anticipated health risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norovirus was highly likely the cause of the vast majority of gastroenteritis cases among kindergarten children in Georgia&#8217;s capital Tbilisi, the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) said Sunday, as authorities investigated an outbreak in which more than 100 children required hospitalization.The NCDC said laboratory testing was continuing and final results would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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