700 Covid patients are in serious or critical conditions – Health minister

Currently, we have 14 expanded medical centers that serve COVID patients, Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan said at the government meeting.

“We have 1500 beds, of which 1143 are currently taken. About 700 patients are in critical condition, the number of general hospitalized patients is quite worrying. Both in Armenia and in other countries, the Delta variant is actively circulating; it stands out both for its high degree of infectivity and for the longer course of the disease. We have young patients with no underlying conditions, who are currently in a serious, extremely serious condition, our doctors are fighting for their lives,” she said. “In total, we have already carried out 267,504 vaccinations. We have already exceeded 7,000 vaccinations per day, we see a tendency that we are quite active, there are even queues in some polyclinics. We do our best to increase our capacity day by day to make the vaccination process as easy as possible, without queuing. As from October 1, the requirement for all businesses to submit a negative result of PCR test once every two weeks comes into force for all businesses. Of course, the exception is the cases when the employee is vaccinated, pregnant or has clear contraindications to vaccination. We expect a large influx of vaccinated people.”