YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. All universities, kindergartens and other educational facilities in Armenia are switching to remote learning from October 15^th for a preliminary two-week period amid a rise of coronavirus cases in the country, the Armenian education minister Arayik Harutyunyan said.

In turn, holidays in Armenian public schools will start sooner than usual.

The two-week autumn school holidays originally scheduled to start from November 2 will begin starting October 15^th until October 29.

Updated decisions will be made after two weeks in accordance with the situation.

On October 14^th, Armenian health authorities reported 1058 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number of daily cases since the outbreak began.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan