YEREVAN—Addressing the nation on Tuesday evening, a resolute Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced new enforcement measures of last week’s State of Emergency in response to newly reported coronavirus cases in Yerevan as well as several provinces throughout the country. Right now, there are 249 cases of the coronavirus in Armenia, announced the Prime Minister on Facebook Live. “Most of them do not even have any symptoms, raising the hopes that they might recover without medical intervention,” said Pashinyan, who also revealed that a 77 year-old patient was in intensive care and another four had severe pneumonia.
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It seems like every world leader is doing something intelligent about the coronavirus except for the overgrown Oompa Loompa in charge of the US.
You think staging mass public rallies in early March and urging people to attend them was intelligent? It’s the most irresponsible behavior I’ve read of around the word. Then curbing the media so they are disallowed to say anything about covid except quote the govt, you seen that in any other country worth a comparison?
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Are you referring to the referendum rallies? Those were called off as soon as soon as the 2nd infection case was confirmed. The Government here swept into action quite rapidly and took appropriate measures in a timely manner.
I’m glad to see that the Republic of Armenia is taking the coronavirus outbreak more seriously than the US or U.K. Armenia took the necessary step of closing educational institutions long before the US, UK and Australia did. So let’s give credit where credit is due
Hasmik, when exactly were they called off? Even one mass rally is one too many when your neighboring country is on fire with infections. It’s reckless to have done them. The whole world was figuring out how to make people disburse when this leader were calling people to converge at mass rallies in early March, as far as I can tell. Didn’t the top officials announce two-week holidays so they would campaign at rallies? I don’t know how anyone can excuse such selfish disregard for public health.
In a place like Armenia, where power and decision making is organized in a centralized, concentrated and linear manner, these responses are easy to organize by design. It’s sort of a perfect setup, unlike US where disparate city, state and federal governments push and pull for resources and organizing. So, yes, give credit where it’s due, while recognizing the backdrop.