“We will urge all grocery stores to set hours for elderly to shop only during those hours, probably between 10 and 12 am, and we will urge all our citizens not to go to stores at that time to make contacts reduced as much as possible. And in this period we call for communication with grandparents via Skype,” Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan said on Public TV.

Deputy Prime Minister, Commandant Tigran Avinyan does not exclude that the state of emergency may end before 14 April; “It is not yet clear when this situation will over, whether it will be postponed or maybe the state of emergency will end sooner. If we find that our preventive actions are effective, we may return to normal life sooner than we expect,” he said, referring to the clause of the package of legislative amendments included in the agenda of the National Assembly’s extraordinary session, on causing by negligence mass illness and criticism about it and noted, “I am not aware of the latest proposed changes yet, I will get acquainted tomorrow, there was such an article in the preliminary version, proposing imprisonment for up to five years in the event of causing mass illness by of negligence. This provision has been amended on the basis of the MPs’ suggestions and the final version will be presented tomorrow in the National Assembly.”