The Armenian government today decided to prohibit people from leaving their homes except to buy food, medicine, other necessary household items, and in cases exempted by the State of Emergency Command.
Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan, now in Stepanakert on a working visit, today met with Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan and the two discussed steps now underway to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Bright Armenia (Lusavor Hayastan) MP Edmon Marukyan has proposed that the government issue an amnesty for a segment of Armenian citizens who avoided the military draft and now face arrest upon their return to Armenia.
Eateries can only make deliveries.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has issued an arrest warrant for former Yerevan Mayor Gagik Beglaryan for his involvement in a scheme to seize a Yerevan kindergarten in 2009 worth 233.5 million drams.
Following yesterday’s decision to close all restaurants and cafes in Armenia, Deputy PM Tigran Avinyan today announced that only vital services and stores, including pharmacies, would operate for the next seven days.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense has refuted news circulating in various Azerbaijani news websites that the Artsakh Defense Army tried to infiltrate the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border near Geranbo, were repelled by Azerbaijani forces, and left one dead Art
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani today, by telephone, discussed the spread of the novel coronavirus in their respective countries and the steps their governments are taking to halt the virus.
As COVID-19 shut down the world in less than a month, cybercriminals seized the opportunity to use the Internet to defraud and blackmail people and companies.
A court in Texas has blocked a website selling fake coronavirus vaccine kits in the first US judicial action against pandemic-related fraud, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
Pashinyan announced the ban in a live Facebook post late on March 23, in which he also reported that 41 new COVID-19 cases had been confirmed.
Pashinyan, in a live Facebook post, reported that new cases were found in the country’s Kotayk Province and in a workshop in Yerevan’s Erebuni District.