YEREVAN, MAY 14, ARMENPRESS. Lithuania has sent medical equipment to Armenia as a humanitarian aid to battle the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Armenian Embassy in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia told Armenpress.

The ceremony of sending the package to Armenia was attended by Armenian Embassy’s Consul to Lithuania Misak Balayan at the airport of the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai on May 13.

The respective decision was adopted by the Lithuanian government on April 22 according to which several member states of the Eastern Partnership, including Armenia, were provided with an aid worth 100,000 Euros, in the form of medical items produced by the Lithuanian companies.

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central China. WHO declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a global pandemic and named the virus COVID-19. 

According to the data of the World Health Organization, coronavirus cases have been confirmed in more than 212 countries and territories.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan