YEREVAN, July 9, /ARKA/. Armenian health officials have recorded 148 new cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, saying the total number of confirmed cases rose to 226,135 as of Friday morning.

According to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, four persons have died from Covid-19 during the past 24 hours. The total tally of such deaths is now 4,540.

Some 109 patients have recovered. Overall, 4,0463 people have tested for the infection in the last 24 hours, it said. One person with confirmed coronavirus has died during that time span from other diseases. The number of such deaths is now 1,105.

In total, 1,224,512 coronavirus tests have been performed in the country of 3 million since March 1, 2020, when the first case was detected. Since then 217,490 patients have recovered, and 3000 patients are being treated currently at hospitals and their homes.

On January 11, the government of Armenia extended the coronavirus quarantine for another six months until July 11, 2021.

The nationwide quarantine was first imposed on September 11, 2020 replacing the state of emergency that was declared on March 16 to stop the spread of coronavirus. -0-