ArmInfo. Armenia carries out all necessary preventive measures to prevent the entry of a new type of coronavirus into the country. Deputy Managing Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia Nune Bakunts stated on February 3, at a press conference.
Bakunts informed that Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being of the Russian Federation 200 tests donated to Armenia to detect a new coronavirus. , she said, expressing gratitude to both the Service and the Armenian and Russian departments that contributed to this process.
According to her, with other countries, as well as with WHO representatives, active work is being carried out with the aim in the future, as necessary, to provide Armenia with these tests. Regarding the recent statement by the Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia Arsen Torosyan on the purchase of 200 tests from a Chinese company for the detection of coronavirus, Bakunts admitted here that she could not provide more specific information on this issue due to the fact that the issue of organizing the transportation of this batch of tests is at a loss coordination.
The expert emphasized that the coronavirus test will be carried out exclusively if there is an appropriate clinical picture.
To recall, in connection with the coronavirus, Armenia suspended the visa-free regime for Chinese citizens until March 31 of this year.
According to data for February 2, the number of patients with the new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV in China exceeded 17 thousand people, 475 people were discharged from hospitals, 361 patients died. Outside of China, 148 cases of coronavirus were detected. On the eve of the first death from a new virus outside of China, a 44-year-old man from the Chinese city of Wuhan died in the Philippines.