“The doubling pace of Covid-19 cases in Armenia is every17 days today,” Health Minister Arsen Torosyan wrote on his Facebook page. “If this doubling rate is kept the total number of confirmed cases will reach 2,500 on May 5 and 5000 – on May 21,” Torosyan wrote, calling on the public to be vigilant to decrease the doubling rate further and curb the spread of the virus.

“For this to happen, we need to exclude the virus transmission from human to human, keeping the social distance everywhere, switching to remote interaction through changing our behavior in contacting with others as well as periodically washing our hands, keeping the hygiene and avoiding face touching,” Torosyan wrote.

The minister next informed that the country has increased the number of tests conducted daily, as1000 tests are performed a day which is a technically complex process and involves specialists, equipment, security measures and logistics.

“Our country will need these capacities to resist similar challenges in the future,” Torosyan concluded.