YEREVAN. – The coronavirus epidemic situation in Armenia has significantly improved and is improving in the last 15 days; for the first time since June 11, we have less than 9,000 active cases; Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the government.

"We have less than 400 daily cases for six days in a row. Thus, we have a chance to break the backbone of the pandemic, and this puts a special responsibility on each of us," Pashinyan said, adding that COVID-19’s peak in Armenia was on July 6.

He added that the established anti-epidemic conditions should be observed with the same severity. "Unfortunately, we know for sure that air transportation will not resume to regular until the end of the tourist season. This means that our citizens who could have spent their holidays abroad should take advantage of domestic tourism opportunities.

We have a task to remove the epidemic from the agenda of our public life. This does not mean that there will be no cases of coronavirus, but it means that these cases be at a level that we do not consider it a crisis. We have that chance today; it depends on us as to what extent we will fulfill that chance.

"We hope in September to record the end of the crisis," Pashinyan said.