Tuesday, April 28 2020 20:42

ArmInfo. <The time has come to recognize that we must live in the presence of coronavirus for at least a year>, - said at a meeting on anti-crisis policies to  neutralize the effects of coronavirus, RA Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan said.

According to him, given by the press service of the government, since  the start of the coronavirus crisis, both in many countries of the  world and in the Republic of Armenia, everyone thought that specific  problems could be quickly and quickly solved, because they hoped that  coronavirus was short term problem. However, the time has come to  realize that the coronavirus will accompany the citizens of Armenia  for at least one year. <This means that we need to change our  tactical and short-term ideas to long-term and strategic. The first  step is to be able to adapt your society to life under the conditions  of a coronavirus, to the development and rational use of time, of  course, realizing that this will bring certain risks.

 In order to live and work normally under these conditions or in  accordance with new circumstances, we must be able to develop new  rules of behavior, acquire new behavioral reflexes in everyday life,  in economic activity. This is probably the worst problem. Our  strategy and tactics are as follows: in the near future, before the  end of the state of emergency, we must open all areas of economic  activity, but at the same time, the Ministry of Health and the  government must determine the minimum security rules. 

This will not be easy to do, because if this process does not occur  with a very high level of self-awareness and discipline, this can  lead to new epidemics. Our task is to ensure that new outbreaks of  the epidemic do not force us to return to the area of severe  restrictions, because, firstly, it will be more difficult to do, and  secondly, it will be more stressful and painful for the economy and  society. We decided that we should implement anti-crisis packages and  activities worth 150 billion drams, of which 25 billion drams should  be social, 25 billion drams for economic assistance, 80 billion drams  should be our strategic contribution to economic transformation and  20 billion drams of reserve money for use at the right time and in  the right direction>, the head of the Armenian government said.