Category: 2020

 11:31,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. Healthcare Minister of Armenia Arsen Torosyan addressed a congratulatory message on the International Nurses Day.

Armenpress presents the message:

“Today the International Nurses Day is celebrated in several countries of the world. May 12 was chosen in honor of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of the nursing service, and since 1974 this occasion is used to congratulate and again express words of gratitude to the persons holding this humanitarian profession.

Dear nurses, your mission is very important, especially these days, in such a difficult and responsible work. Accept my warm congratulations and be aware that you are appreciated. It’s difficult to imagine the work of doctors without nurses because you are the ones who directly work with the patients during the whole treatment process. This dedication saves lives.

Be sure that your care and smile are more than demanded during the whole recovery process of the patients.

Stay firm, and let optimism and patience always be with you during these difficult days.

I wish you good health, peaceful sky, family warmth and new achievements”.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 11:23,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. Jailed former President Robert Kocharyan underwent surgery at a Yerevan hospital in the morning of May 12, his office said in a statement.

This is the second time Kocharyan is undergoing a surgery in custody.

Kocharyan’s office said he is feeling well and the surgery was completed successfully. The operation took place at the Izmirlyan Medical Center in Yerevan.

Reporting by Karen Khachatryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 12:11,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. The number of coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 10,899 over the past 24 hours reaching 232,243 in all regions of the country, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.

A total of 43,512 patients have recovered, 2,116 people have died.

According to its data, the daily growth rate was 4.9% compared to 5.6% the day before. It noted that 4,704 new patients (43.1%) had no symptoms.

 16:02,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. According to the latest data, the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran has increased by 1,481 bringing the total number of cases to 110,767, the Armenian Embassy in Iran said on Facebook.

48 more deaths have been registered in the past one day. The death toll has reached 6,733.

2,713 coronavirus infected patients are in serious condition.

The number of recovered people increased by 935 raising the total number of recoveries to 88,357.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 18:43,

YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. The Ministry of Finance informs that a total of 1 billion and 66 million drams has been donated to the Armenian government for its anti-coronavirus efforts, ARMENPRESS reports the government said.

The treasury account (900005001947) was opened on March 17th for citizens and organizations willing to make donations.

The government said a total of 4153 payments were made since.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan

 14:23,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers is holding its session in a video conference mode, Armenian foreign ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said on Facebook.

“Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus the session of the CIS Foreign Ministers’ Council is being held in a remote format”, the spokesperson said.

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central China. WHO declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a global pandemic and named the virus COVID-19. 

According to the data of the World Health Organization, coronavirus cases have been confirmed in more than 212 countries and territories.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 20:02,

YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. In the process of the implementation of judicial vetting, Justice Minster of Armenia Rustam Badasyan attaches more importance to who will enter the judicial system, rather than who will leave it. For that reason the judicial system is becoming more attractive for good judges, ARMENPRESS reports Badasyan said during a discussion with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that he has the impression that the Government has not illustrated the judicial reforms to a sufficient extent and that is why many people think that the Government promised vetting but forgot the promise.

In response, Justice Minister Rustam Bdasyan said, ‘’I think it’s more important to think of who will enter the judicial system, rather than who will leave it’’.

The Minister noted the judicial system remains out of interest of really good specialists. According to him, in the last 2 years only 30 people study at the Academy of Justice, which means that there are 30 candidates for the position of judges, which is extremely low number. ‘’This is another proof of the fact that the judicial system is not interesting for many good specialists, which signals that serious changes should be carried out. I think the 1^st condition is the adequate salary’’, the Minister said. He added that the Judicial Department introduced a gradual system of increasing the remuneration of judges with medium-term expenditure programs, which means that if the Government approves it, the salary of judges will increase by 50% in 2020, 60% in 2021 and 70% in 2022.

‘’Currently, the salary of a judge of the Court of First Instance is about 661 thousand drams, the judge of the Court of Appeal – 727 thousand drams, the judge of Cassation Court – 760 thousand drams. If the salary increase in 2020 takes place, the salary will be 991 thousand drams, in 2021 – 1 million 57 thousand, in 2022 – 1 million 123 thousand drams’’, the Minister said.

PM Pahsinyan noted that the increase of the salary of salaries is 1^st of all done for the benefit of the citizens, who often write to the PM or Minister  that the decision of the court was not fair. ‘’It’s clear that it’s also done for the judges, but 1^st of all it’s done for making the job of the judge so attractive that the top level specialists get involved in the system’’, PM Pashinyan said.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan, Editing and translating by Tigran Sirekanyan

 17:59,

During this period, in case of non-fulfillment or partial fulfillment of the regular loan repayments, the loan will not be classified, will not be considered overdue, penalties, fines will not be applied, the credit history will not suffer.

Afterthe 1^st of June, the package support announced by the Bank on the 2^nd of April will be still operated. In particular։

• After the end of the credit vacation, new credit schedules will be made so that physical entity customers will receive a grace period for the principal amount for the following 3 months, this means they will make only interest payments.
• Those obligationsnot fulfilledstarting from March 17, will be distributed over the whole period following the loan repayment. In case of unsecured and non-guaranteed loans, the Bank will automatically extend the loan repayment period by 12 months.

For legal entities, the Bank takes an individual approach.

All the terms and conditions of the credit vacation provided by IDBank are available here.

At the same time, we encourage you to make payments remotely as far as it is possible, via IDBanking.am online platform, Idram application, as well as through IDBanking 24/7 zones, making use of more than 300 other services.

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