Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian said forging even closer ties with Russia is vital for Armenia’s national security as he campaigned in Gegharkunik province on Tuesday.
Health authorities could take one year to vaccinate the majority of Armenians against the coronavirus, according to Health Minister Anahit Avanesian.
Azerbaijan freed and repatriated on Tuesday three more Armenians who were taken prisoner during or shortly after last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia will receive soon fresh batches of coronavirus vaccines even though most of its residents are still in no rush to take them, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
The Armenian Ministry of Health has allowed all adults to take AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot amid a slow pace of vaccinations in the country hit hard by the pandemic.
Only about 400 Armenians have been vaccinated against COVID-19 since their government launched its first major inoculation program a week ago, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced on Wednesday that it will allocate $1 million to help health authorities in Armenia vaccinate people against COVID-19.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian said on Thursday that Armenian authorities will start administering AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine later this month despite lingering questions about its safety.
Armenia’s Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakian announced his resignation on Wednesday almost two weeks after assaulting a journalist at a restaurant in Yerevan.
Intensive care units are full and dozens of patients with coronavirus symptoms have to wait for their turn to be hospitalized in Armenia as the South Caucasus country is experiencing another surge in COVID-19 cases, according to healthcare officials.
Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian said that he “will not leave political trenches” as he again called for the resignation of what he described as the “defeatist” government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday.
Armenia’s government has no plans to again shut down schools despite a renewed increase in coronavirus cases in the country, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Health Minister Anahit Avanesian called on Thursday for a renewed strict enforcement of the Armenian government’s sanitary rules, saying that coronavirus infections in the country have increased in recent days after more than three months of steady decline.
An Armenian court gave on Wednesday prison sentences ranging from about 5 to 25 years to nine key members of an armed anti-government group that seized a police base in Yerevan in July 2016.
A close associate of Nikol Pashinian insisted on Monday that the Armenian prime minister and his political team are not afraid of former President Robert Kocharian’s bid to return to power.
Opposition parties jointly trying to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian are discussing ways of reinvigorating their campaign, one of their leaders said on Monday.
The Armenian government on Thursday pledged to provide demobilized soldiers maimed during the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh with modern prosthetics and help them find jobs and receive higher education.
The two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament claimed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian failed to achieve anything during his talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
Ignoring strong objections from health experts, the National Assembly has delayed by one year the entry into force of several provisions of a law designed to curb widespread smoking in Armenia.
Armenia and Azerbaijan exchanged on Monday more prisoners under a Russian-brokered deal that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh November 10.
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