The chairman of the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Commission declared from this podium that there is a problem with face masks, and the Commandant for the state of emergency also stated that whereas face masks used to be sold for AMD 20-30, now the price for face masks is not lower than AMD 200. This is what deputy of the Prosperous Armenia faction of the National Assembly of Armenia Naira Zohrabyan stated during the discussion on extension of the regime of state of emergency for another month.

“Now we all say the pandemic might last a year or two and even up to five years, and based on my calculations, citizens have to pay up to AMD 17,000 for face masks every month in order not to use old and dirty face masks and cause much more harm to themselves,” she said and urged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to provide socially disadvantaged citizens with face masks.