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.
On the background of rampant Covid-19, the public health crisis, social and economic crises deepening with every day, the extension of the state of emergency declared in Armenia is exclusively used by incumbent authorities to add veil of lawfulness to political persecution.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia faction head Gagik Tsarukyan has been stripped of parliamentary immunity.
The head of the Luys faction of the Yerevan Council of the Elders, Davit Khazhakyan, made a post on his Facebook page, referring to the information that “Team” LLC has started negotiations to acquire the Beeline brand.
On the occasion of Andranik Margaryan’s birthday, third President of the Republic of Armenia, RPA President Serzh Sargsyan joined Andranik Margaryan’s son, former Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan to visit the Komitas Pantheon and paid tribute to the memory of Andranik Margaryan, a statesman and political figure.
In these troubled times when our streets are filled with human rights protests about discriminatory violence against minority ethnic and racial groups, it is not enough to march. We also need to rethink our conceptualizations and our knowledge of history. Armenians often claim to be the victims of the first genocide of the twentieth century, but increasingly in recent decades academic scholarship has suggested another earlier important example.
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has surpassed 7 million 458 thousand, according to the data released by coronavirus research centers.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made decisions over new appointments, the PM said in a statement on Facebook.
On June 4, the draft of the recommendation “European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Eastern Partnership, in the run-up to the June 2020 Summit” was sent to the members of the European Parliament and staff. Probably today it will be published on the EP website.
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has surpassed 7 million 092 thousand, according to the data released by coronavirus research centers.
