Third President of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan partook in a Brussels-hosted videoconference of European People’s Party (EPP) Eastern Partnership leaders, chaired by EPP President Donald Tusk.
Vice-President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, speaking of an initiative of the opposition factions, more particularly the “Prosperous Armenia”, to apply to the Constitutional Court with respect to the legality of the decision relating to the organization of peaceful assemblies during the state of emergency, told that “Prosperous Armenia”, at every occasion relating to the debate over the Constitutional Court, has expressed its agreement with the idea that there is indeed an issue with that Court.
One of the most discussed topics of the last two days in the context of the situation around the name of Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan is the disproportionate police force used against wrestling champion of Europe Roman Amoyan, who was laid down on the ground by 13 policemen when protesting against the arrest of Gagik Tsarukyan.
544 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been registered in Armenia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 18,033, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today.
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, can be lifesaving for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. For patients on ventilators, the treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.
