Two deputy ministers of territorial administration and infrastructures recover from COVID-19

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YEREVAN, JUNE 10, ARMENPRESS. Two deputy ministers of territorial administration and infrastructures of Armenia recently have been infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), but they have already recovered and returned to work, Minister Suren Papikyan told reporters in the Parliament.

“We had infected patients, but at this stage, if I am not mistaken, we should not have any infected person in the ministry. My two deputies have been infected, but they have already recovered and currently are working”, the minister said.

428 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been registered in Armenia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 14,103, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today.

775 more patients have recovered and were discharged from hospital. The total number of recoveries has reached 5,226.

10 people have died in one day, raising the death toll to 227.

The number of active cases stands at 8,573.

The number of people who had a coronavirus but died from other disease has increased by 3. The total number of these cases has reached 77.

So far, 73,156 people have passed COVID-19 testing.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

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