Government: Patients transferring mild coronavirus will be  transferred to hotels in the country

ArmInfo. Patients who transfer mild coronavirus will be moved from the infectious diseases hospital to hotels and provided with food. This was announced on March 26 by  the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a government meeting.

In this regard, he emphasized that the main task in the current  conditions is the proper management of the facilities of medical  facilities. Most patients, according to the Prime Minister, tolerate  coronavirus in a mild form, so their stay in infectious diseases  hospitals is inappropriate. The Prime Minister said that this  decision to move patients to hotels was made as a result of  discussions with Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and RA Minister  of Health Arsen Torosyan.

Pashinyan asked the heads of hotels in Armenia, who are ready to  cooperate with the state and can offer their terms and prices,  contact the State Committee for Tourism of the Republic of Armenia.  , the prime minister said.

However, he noted the likelihood that some hotels may refuse, due to  concerns about the competitiveness of their brand. In this regard,  Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan noted that similar practice is  applied in other countries, in particular in Israel, where in the  country's hotels there are about 1000 patients with a mild form of  coronavirus.

"I don't think that a brand competitiveness problem may arise here,  since the situation around the world is such that tourism has almost  come to a zero mark," Torosyan emphasized.

It should be noted that as of 10:00 on March 26 in Armenia 25 new  cases of infection with a new type of coronavirus were detected. In  total, 290 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the republic, 18  people recovered, 1315 tests carried out gave a negative result.