Armenia's health officials record highest number of Covid-19 cases since last December
YEREVAN, March 18 /ARKA/. Armenian health officials have recorded 1,024 cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours (the highest number since December 17, 2020), saying the total number of confirmed cases rose to 181,165 as of Thursday morning.
According to the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 19 persons have died from Covid-19 during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally of such deaths to 3,301.
Some 273 patients have recovered. Overall, 4,687 people have tested for the infection in the last 24 hours, it said. Seven persons with confirmed coronavirus have died during that time span from other diseases. The number of such deaths is now 848.
In total, 788,953 coronavirus tests have been performed in the country of 3 million since March 1, 2020, when the first case was detected. Since then 167,186 patients have recovered, and 9,830 patients are being treated currently at hospitals and at 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-
