In Armenia, the state of emergency will be extended for another month  in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic

ArmInfo. In Armenia, the state  of emergency will be extended for another month in connection with  the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision on this was made at an  extraordinary meeting of the RA government.

According to RA Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan, the current  decision of the Cabinet of Ministers will be the third in a row.  Since March 16, when the state of emergency was first introduced in  the country, the number of infected persons has increased to 14,639  people. This fact is concrete evidence of the need to extend the  state of emergency. Thus, as the Minister stated, the regime is  introduced from 5:00pm on June 13 and will remain in effect until  5:00pm on July 13. At the same time, the draft decision, which has  yet to be approved by the country's parliament, introduces  restrictions on administrative acts of the Judicial Acts Compulsory  Enforcement Service. During the State of Emergency, the Service will  not apply administrative acts in order to exclude social tension.  In  her turn, RA Deputy Minister of Justice Anahit Avanesyan informed  that over the past day 628 new cases of coronavirus incidence have  been detected in the country, 173 citizens have recovered, 13 cases  of death have been recorded. At present, as the deputy minister  noted, 6 thousand people are under home supervision, 1800 under the  supervision of hospitals, the health status of 425 patients is  classified as severe, 100 as extremely severe, 27 people are  connected to ventilation devices.

RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that as soon as positive  dynamics are observed, control over anti-epidemiological norms is  weakening in the country. As a result, the increase in the number of  infected in 7-14 days. After 1-2 days of positive signals, an  outbreak occurs again, indicating a lack of social behavior. The RA  Prime Minister again called on the citizens of the country to  maintain the norm of behavior - to wear masks, maintain social  distance and often wash their hands. He also pointed out the need to  strengthen the administrative resource in relation to violators of  the state of emergency.  To recall, in Armenia for the first time the  state of emergency was introduced on March 16. However, then it was  extended for a month in April, May and now in June.