17:32,
YEREVAN, MAY 14, ARMENPRESS. Wearing face masks in public transport will be compulsory in Armenia starting May 18, in parallel with the launch of the public transport operation, Deputy Prime Minister, State of Emergency Commandant Tigran Avinyan’s spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan said on Facebook.
The spokesperson also reminded that wearing face masks will also be mandatory in outdoor places starting May 25.
Armenia is planning to resume the operation of public transport from May 18, Deputy Prime Minister, State of Emergency Commandant Tigran Avinyan said today at a special session in the Parliament convened for discussing the issue of extending the coronavirus-related state of emergency.
Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
By Samvel Sukiasyan
NEWS.am Sport continues presenting the young Armenian football players who play abroad, but dream of playing for the Armenian national team one day.
Armenian forward David Davtyan, 18, has played at the football academies of the Brugge, Cercle Brugge, and Gent clubs of Belgium.
“David was born in Stavropol in August 2001. We moved to Belgium when he was 2.5 years old,” his father, Hayk Davtyan, told NEWS.am Sport. “David started playing football at the age of 6, at the school of Brugge where he spent two years. In 2009-2018, my son played at the academy of Cercle Brugge and went through the whole system of the club. In 2018-2019, David played for Gent’s U18 and U19 teams.
In the 2015/16 season, my son was called twice to the Belgian U15 national team, and in the 2017/18 season, he joined the Armenian U17 national team with great pride, taking part in test matches in Serbia. Receiving a new invitation from the Armenian national teams will be a great reason for pride and joy for our family.
David, who has trained at the Topsport Academy for several years, is currently a free agent. We are discussing several proposals received from Belgian teams. The coronavirus pandemic obstructed us a little bit, but we hope that everything will be settled in the near future.”
13:07,
YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. Former Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan is participating in the closed-format session of the Committee investigating the circumstances of the 2016 April Four-Day War.
The Committee earlier sent an invitation to the former PM to attend the session.
Before the session Karen Karapetyan told reporters that he will answer to their questions after the session.
Recently the session of the Committee was also attended by 3rd President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, then by Police Chief of Artsakh Levon Mnatsakanyan who was serving as Defense Army Commander during the April War.
Karen Karapetyan was appointed Prime Minister of Armenia in September 2016 and remained in office until 2018.
Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
With its essence the current political system repeats the qualities of the former political system and today’s incident in the parliament is the best proof of it, political technologist Armen Badalyan told Aysor.am.
“The force that used to be opposition and was subjected to pressures by former authorities and now does the same against the current opposition. And all this happens at the presence of the prime minister,” he said.
Badalyan said that the “velvet” declared by the acting authorities has never existed but instead there has always been propaganda of hatred.
“The hatred propaganda gave its result. The gun hanging from the wall will shoot one day. With today’s actions the deputies ignored the prime minister and showed that their presence does not change anything,” he said, adding that it was not respect toward the PM.
The relaxation of coronavirus lockdown measures too soon could lead to a “further disaster”, Armenia’s former Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan warned on Thursday.
“These days, here has been a lot of talk about Sweden’s ‘bold’ response to the coronavirus pandemic. Final conclusions can only be drawn after overcoming the epidemic, but at the moment the death rate in Sweden is 12.2%, almost twice as much as the international rate of 7%. It stands at 4% in its neighboring Denmark and Finland which are taking tough measures,” he said in a Facebook post.
“Three days ago, Harvard University researchers and experts from the Central Hospital of Massachusetts developed a model simulator which makes it clear that even if the curve flattens, lifting restrictions sooner than 12 weeks can result in a much graver situation in terms of both the number of infections and deaths in July-August.
“The consequences of “reopening” and shifting the main focus to self-awareness could arise in 20-30 days. At this point, even if the toughest measures are taken the further disaster could fail to be prevented,” the ex-minter stressed.
He agreed that home treatment of mild cases of CVID-19 seems to have no alternative not considering the option of setting up makeshift hospitals, but warned that the multigenerational living and people’s low level of self-awareness may lead to a spike in coronavirus cases.
“The results of the weeklong efforts can be completely neutralized and become pointless,” Vigen Sargsyan said.
12:15,
YEREVAN, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESS. The Office of the State of Emergency Commandant in Armenia will start mitigating the current coronavirus-related restrictions across the country within the next 10 days if nothing extraordinary happens, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said live on Facebook.
“In the next 10 days we will start to reduce the restrictions if nothing extraordinary happens. All spheres of economic activity will open, but the healthcare ministry will set a logic of maintaining the safety rules for each sector”, the PM said.
He added that the restriction will remain into force only on the education sector.
Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Armenia’s government on March 16 declared a state of emergency which was effective until April 14. But the state of emergency was extended until May 14 to further tackle the disease.
Reporting by Norayr Shoghikyan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
14:28,
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, ARMENPRESS. Schools will remain closed and classes will continue being organized remotely during May, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan said on social media.
“The 2020 academic year will end with remote learning,” he said.
Schools and universities in Armenia deployed remote learning when the coronavirus outbreak began in early March.
Reporting by Lilit Demuryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan