Category: 2020

 13:14, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Cabinet members gave a round of applause today at the Cabinet meeting to all businesses and healthcare workers who are carrying on with their work and service during the novel coronavirus crisis.

“I’d like to once more emphasize the exclusive talent of our businessmen,” PM Pashinyan said, adding that businesses are carrying on with importing goods despite the border shutdowns. “And I would like to thank everyone”, he said.

Pashinyan noted that the healthcare workers are the leading heroes on these days.  The PM and ministers gave a round of applause for the businesses and healthcare workers.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

 13:12, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. All 115 novel coronavirus patients in Armenia are in satisfactory condition, Healthcare Minister Arsen Torosyan said during the Cabinet meeting.

He said only 5 of the 115 have mild fever.

“13 of them are above the age of 60, none have fever. I can say that their lives are not in danger,” Torosyan said.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

 14:29, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. All 67 Armenian nationals who were airlifted out of coronavirus-hit Italy on an evacuation flight on March 16^th and quarantined in a government facility in Dilijan, Armenia are feeling well, Healthcare Minister Arsen Torosyan said.

“Almost all of them are feeling well. Yesterday only one patient developed fever. The patient has been taken to a hospital and will be tested. All others will be tested only after the quarantine is completed, because they are practically healthy,” he said, referring to the fact that none is experiencing any symptoms. “Even if they have the virus, after the 14^th day we will have a negative test result because the virus will have withdrawn from their systems”.

He said they don’t see any need of testing quarantined people who don’t have any symptoms.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

 15:02, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. The government of Armenia is developing a legislative initiative which will envisage liability for people who will violate the healthcare authorities’ instructions to self-quarantine, Healthcare Minister Arsen Torosyan said.

“If someone is ordered to self-quarantine based on epidemiological instructions, then the violation of this self-quarantine should have consequences, up to criminal liability. And we are currently working on the bill,” Torosyan said, adding that many countries are switching to self-quarantine methods and there are countries that already have envisaged responsibility for violators.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

 17:02, 19 March, 2020

YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. Armenians living in the member states of the European Union, who were infected with the novel coronavirus, feel well. The Office of Armenia’s High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs keeps in touch with them, High Commissioner Zareh Sinanyan said during a press conference.

“Large number of Armenians live in Iran, who also live under state of emergency like the local residents. During this period 85-year-old ethnic Armenian woman died from the novel coronavirus in Iran, she also had health problems. The situation in the Netherlands is satisfactory, but as for those in Italy there is no detailed information. We do not have yet concrete information about the infected Armenians living in other European countries, but are in touch with the communities”, he said.

Sinanyan said they are receiving many appeals, e-mails, calls from the Diaspora-Armenians requesting information about the return to Armenia.

On March 16 Armenia declared a 30-day state of emergency to fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. The state of emergency is effective until April 14, at 17:00. As of now, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country is 122, one patient has recovered.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan