The following was released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts that the ongoing Covid-19 crisis will slow economic growth in Armenia to 2.2% in 2020 due to slower consumption rates.
Artsakh Minster of State Grigory Martirosyan today held a working meeting of government department heads to discuss measures in the planning stage to cushion the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the country’s economy.
Armenian Minister of the Economy Tigran Khachatryan, at a Yerevan press conference today, said that the ongoing coronavirus crisis would result in significant losses to the country’s economy in 2020.
In response to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic globally, and recently in Armenia, the World Bank is supporting the Government’s response to protect its people amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The two had underlying chronic ailments including diabetes and hypertension.