During today’s government session, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan called on Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan to provide the addresses of buildings in which there are people infected with the coronavirus, not the addresses of districts.

“We need to provide the addresses of buildings to show how many people are infected with the coronavirus in those buildings and tell people who don’t believe in the virus to go and see for themselves. All this time, the government hasn’t been able to convince at least one citizen to say that his or her relative has died from the coronavirus, even though we understand that the particular person is mourning the loss of a relative,” he said.

In response, Arsen Torosyan said the government can provide the address of an apartment building and deal with the patients in that particular building.

Pashinyan got angry and went on to say the following: “When the government set restrictions on spreading information about the coronavirus, people said the government is violating freedom of expression. Now when there is no violation, people make stupid comments, saying there is no coronavirus. They even pay the relatives of a person who died from an accident to agree that the person died from the coronavirus,” he said.