Deputy of the Bright Armenia faction of the National Assembly Karen Simonyan believes government officials had to be tested for COVID-19 after the Prime Minister tested positive.

“The first circle of contacts are government officials and then parliamentarians, but in my opinion, in any case, everyone had to be tested so that we could understand who has the virus and who doesn’t,” the deputy told Armenian News-NEWS.am, stating that his political party had predicted the development of events months ago and that people don’t have a serious attitude towards the virus due to government officials’ mutually exclusive statements.

“The people don’t know if they should believe the health minister or not because he has been making mutually exclusive statements for the past three months,” he stated.