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Health Minister Anahit Avanesian warned on Thursday that Armenian hospitals could run out of beds for COVID-19 patients if a renewed increase in coronavirus cases in the country continues unabated.
Avanesian issued the warning after health authorities registered the largest single-day number of cases in more than two months.
The Armenian Ministry of Health reported in the morning that 748 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past day, sharply up from an average of 183 cases a day recorded in February. The daily number of officially confirmed infections averaged 407 in the first ten days of March.
“As we predicted last week, we have a major increase in the disease,” Avanesian told a weekly cabinet meeting in Yerevan. “Right now there are 6,772 active cases and 901 of these people are hospitalized.”
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The Armenian government would like to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine and is negotiating with Moscow for that purpose, Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Wednesday.
“Close cooperation and periodical exchange of experience with the Russian side is very important for us, and our specialists are now holding active negotiations over the acquisition of the Sputnik V vaccine,” she told Sergei Kopyrkin, the Russian ambassador to Armenia, at a meeting in Yerevan.
A statement by the Armenian Ministry of Health quoted Avanesian as saying that her government is ready to buy Sputnik V in addition to another vaccine which is due to be supplied to Armenia by the COVAX Facility global partnership supported by the World Health Organization. No other details were reported.