Author: Nahapetian Zhanna

 12:15,

YEREVAN, JUNE 12, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian citizens should accept that the new cases of the novel coronavirus show how everyone followed the rules of wearing a face mask, disinfecting hands and keeping a social distance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet today, reminding that according to the latest data more than 600 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country.

“When the number of new cases is declining to some extent, we witness a drastic decline in the level of following the anti-epidemic rules. This situation is directly linked with our general public behavior”, he said, adding that the respective agencies should seriously deal with this issue and identify the people who say that this disease doesn’t exist. “We need to understand their goal and ties. This can make us draw some conclusions, and our agencies with operative capacities should deal with this”, he said.

Pashinyan said all state agencies should continue presenting the people the coronavirus prevention rules on a daily basis.

According to him, the number of patients in serious and critical condition is directly linked with the total number of confirmed cases: the higher the confirmed cases, the higher the number of patients in serious and critical condition, and thus, the higher the death toll. “75% of the cases show no symptoms, but with our statistics we are indirectly increasing the number of serious, critical cases and that of deaths”, he said.

According to the latest data, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Armenia has reached 15,281, out of which 5,639 patients have already recovered. The number of active cases stands at 9,298. The death toll has risen to 258.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 15:31, 4 June, 2020

YEREVAN, JUNE 4, ARMENPRESS. The Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia is discussing with the concerned sides the applications on revising the tariffs of gas.

Two companies – Gazprom Armenia CJSC and Transgaz LLC, conduct a licensed activity in Armenia’s gas supply system. Gazprom Armenia CJSC conducts the import of the natural gas, the operative technological regulation of the system, the distribution and sale of the natural gas to the consumers. Whereas, Trasngaz LLC carries out the natural gas transportation and operation of gas storage facilities.

The applications on revising the gas tariffs were submitted by these two companies on April 1 and were examined by the staff of the Public Services Regulatory Commission. The Commission proposed to keep unchanged the current gas tariffs both for the population and the socially needy families. In particular, Gazprom Armenia proposed to set the tariff both for the population and those families at 135,909.6 drams for thousand cubic meters. But this in case when currently the gas tariff for socially needy families is 100,000 AMD, and that for the population is 139,000 AMD. The Commission proposed to keep unchanged the current tariffs.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 14:50,

STEPANAKERT, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh Republic President Arayik Harutyunyan convened today an enlarged working consultation with the participation of the members of the current Cabinet of Ministers, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The President expressed his gratitude to the members of the executive branch for joint work highlighting that although only some of them will be included in the composition of the new Cabinet of Ministers, the experience and knowledge of each of them are very important for further state building process.

Arayik Harutyunyan presented to the attention of those present the changes in the composition of the government emphasizing that as a result the state budget will not have an additional burden.

According to the President, the following composition of the Cabinet of Ministers has been established:

1. Minister of State;
   2. Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Housing;
   3. Ministry of Healthcare;
   4. Ministry of Justice;
   5. Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
   6. Ministry of Agriculture;
   7. Ministry of Economy and Industrial Infrastructures;
   8. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture;
   9. Ministry of Defense;
   10. Ministry of Military Patriotic Upbringing, Youth, Sports and Tourism;
   11. Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development;
   12. Ministry of Municipal Engineering;
   13. Ministry of Finance.

The following state administrative bodies have also been defined:

1. National Security Service;
   2. State Service of Emergency Situations;
   3. Nature Protection Committee;
   4. Cadastre and State Property Management Committee;
   5. Committee on Integration with Armenia and the Diaspora.
   6. Police;
   7. State Revenue Committee;
   8. State Control Service.
2. Harutyunyan informed as well that the Cabinet of Ministers has been assigned to adopt decisions arising from the decree within one-month period.

 13:12,

YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. The number of COVID-19 cases in Russia has risen by 8,926 over the past day and for the first time since May 1 this figure was less than 9,000, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.

To date, Russia has confirmed 290,678 COVID-19 cases in all regions. The daily growth in cases dropped to a record low of 3.2%, while the corresponding figure a day earlier was 3.6%.

Some 3,557 (40.1%) of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 over the past day in Russia have not shown any symptoms.

Moscow has reported 3,238 new coronavirus cases over the past day, taking the total case tally to 146,062.