Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired a regular sitting of the commission coordinating the work on preventing the spread of coronavirus in the Republic of Armenia.
After the sitting, the Prime Minister, Clinical Head of the Infectious Diseases Branch of Surb Astvatsamayr MC Hayk Antonyan and Director of Yerevan Polyclinic No. 13 Ruzanna Durgaryan held a press conference.
Pashinyan noted that patients with diabetes and high blood pressure, which are quite common diseases in Armenia are severely affected by coronavirus.
“There have been many cases when the presence of these diseases was discovered after the patient was hospitalized. “People were not aware of the disease until they became infected with the coronavirus,” he said.
