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Servicemen and school children test positive for coronavirus in Armenia

26 March 2020 15:32 (UTC +04:00)

Three servicemen tested COVID-19 positive on March 25 in Armenia, APA reports citing aysor.am

“A family member of one of them had confirmed coronavirus. All the three cases are interconnected with the first cases recorded in Armenia. The servicemen were isolated which reduced the risk of further spread of the disease,” Armenia’s Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan stated.

School-age children are among coronavirus infected in Armenia, but they feel good, health minister Arsen Torosyan said at a press conference today.

“I do not remember their exact number, but they all feel good,” the minister said.

Speaking at news conference today, Armenia’s health minister Arsen Torosyan said another doctor and a driver of ambulance car have been infected with coronavirus.

“Unfortunately, another doctor and driver of an ambulance car are infected with coronavirus,” he said, adding that yesterday another 140 people from manufacturing company in Erebuni district have been isolated.