Seeking to allay public fears in Armenia after the first coronavirus case was recorded in the country earlier today, Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan stated at a Yerevan press conference that there was no basis for panic.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan cancelled the annual march after an Armenian citizen who returned to Yerevan from Tehran on February 28 tested positive for the coronavirus.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, in a Facebook post, says the patient is a 29-year- old Armenian citizen who arrived in Yerevan by plane from Tehran on February 28.