YEREVAN, July 13, /ARKA/. Armenian health officials have recorded 138 new cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, saying the total number of confirmed cases rose to 226,597 as of Tuesday morning.

According to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, two persons have died from Covid-19 during the past 24 hours. The total tally of such deaths is now 4,549.

Some 79 patients have recovered. Overall, 4,150 people have tested for the infection in the last 24 hours, it said. Two persons with confirmed coronavirus have died during that time span from other diseases. The number of such deaths is now 1,110.

In total, 1,242,361 coronavirus tests have been performed in the country of 3 million since March 1, 2020, when the first case was detected. Since then 217,810 patients have recovered, and 3,128 patients are being treated currently at hospitals and their homes.

On July 9, the government of Armenia extended the coronavirus quarantine for another six months until December 20, 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-