The Board of Trustees of the St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church of San Francisco announced on Thursday that around 4 a.m. the building adjacent to the church was set ablaze by arsonists, Asbarez reported.
Armenian prime minister’s spouse Anna Hakobyan has suspended her powers of the chairwoman of the board of trustees of the City of Smile charitable foundation.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian met with the leadership of the French Dassault Systèmes company.
295 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded over the last 24 hours as Armenian health authorities conducted by far the highest number of tests in a day. The Centers for Disease Control said they’ve done 4319 tests.
An Armenian soldier has been killed from gunshot and shrapnel wounds on September 16 in the latest Azerbaijani ceasefire violation and provocations at the state border.
A record number of tests were conducted over the past 24 hours in Armenia, with 257 new cases of COVID-19 being recorded, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 46376, the Armenian Center For Disease Control reported.
On 8 September, a member of the Armenian National Assembly brought forward a legislative proposal on insult and defamation that aims to increase fines for publishing insults and defamatory comments in the media and social networks. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) join their affiliate, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in urging the parliament not to take up the proposal.
150 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 46119, the Armenian Center For Disease Control reported. 248 patients recovered, raising the number of total recoveries to 41941.
107 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 45969, the Armenian Center For Disease Control reported. 34 patients recovered, raising the number of total recoveries to 41693.
The Government of Armenia officially lifted the coronavirus-related state of emergency which spanned more than 6 months and is replacing it with quarantine measures effective immediately which would allow the authorities to continue enforcing safety rules and restrictions.
