President of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Arayik Haroutyunyan today convened an enlarged working consultation to tighten measures for the fight against the novel coronavirus, as reported the Central Information Department of the Office of the President of Artsakh.

Among the participants were Minister of State, Commandant for the emergency situation Grigory Martirosyan; acting Minister of Health Arayik Baghryan; deputies of the National Assembly; Mayor of Stepanakert Davit Sargsyan; heads of regional administrations and other officials.

Baghryan delivered a report on the coronavirus situation and stated that the intensity of the spread of the pandemic has grown over the past few days.

According to the press release, Haroutyunyan assigned to tighten measures and demanded that officials be consistent with implementation of the adopted decisions. Haroutyunyan also assigned to set up a task force of healthcare workers that will directly deal with the fight against the pandemic.