On March 8, a 23- to 25-year old woman with pneumonia was transferred to Martuni town medical center. On the same day, she was transferred to a Yerevan hospital where she died.

"The person applied to us at 5:15pm with double pneumonia; all measures were taken," Andranik Harutyunyan, director of Martuni medical center, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. “In the evening, at 10:30pm, she was transferred to Erebouni Medical Center [in Yerevan]; she died some time later.

There was no suspicion of coronavirus, she had intense pneumonia; there was a tumor on her lungs."