Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan has introduced a legislative initaitive by which he proposes to increase the amount of compensation for insult and defamation published on social networks and in the media, that is, AMD 1,000,000 instead of the previous AMD 5,000,000 for insult, and AMD 10,000,000 instead of the previous AMD 2,000,000 for defamation.
108 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 44953 , the Armenian Center For Disease Control reported. 471 patients recovered, raising the number of total recoveries to 40592.
