Health Minister Arsen Torosyan posted on his Facebook page: “Only ‘we’ cannot break this pace, it ‘we all’ can do it.

In the attached pictures are the curves of our and different countries showing the doubling rate of cases of coronavirus infection. Countries has had different speeds from 2 to 10 days. We are currently at a 7-day rate. That is, our cases are doubled every 7 days. Japan also has such tempo.

Now, assuming this rate is maintained, we will have about 1,000 cases on April 7, 2000 on April 14, and so on. And the task for all of us is to slow that pace so that we will have just as many new cases as we would have in a healthy patient, and then less a new patient than a healthy patient.

If the pace is maintained and not set as smooth as in South Korea, we will have to treat patients with little or no symptoms “at home”, as many countries do, with just having no choice. I do not think this is a desirable scenario for us, as the health care system, including its special coronavirus segment, will be able to carry that burden. By the way, the health system of any country cannot bear this burden.

And it is in the context of the foregoing that it is important to stay at home and strictly adhere to self-isolation guidelines, including those at risk of administrative liability.

It is important for all of these that we record these violations in one way or another and bring people back to their isolation. It is not an end in itself, but a tool directly influencing the spread of infectious disease.

What is being done by the health system of Armenia today is ten times more than one would expect from health care in the country at 1.5% of GDP by state spending over the years, and is only the result of the dedication of health workers as well as employees of our other agencies.

But only “we” cannot break this pace, “we all” must do it,” he wrote.