Armenia has confirmed three new cases of coronavirus. This is what Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan wrote on his Facebook page.

“Today, unfortunately, Armenia recorded three new cases of coronavirus.

Two of the infected are citizens of Armenia aged 45 and 27, and one is a citizen of Italy, who is 51 years old and works in Armenia. All three arrived from Italy.

The circle of their interactions is being clarified in order to isolate them, and according to preliminary information, it isn’t a large circle.

The citizen of Italy and one of the citizens of Armenia don’t have complaints, but the other citizen of Armenia has pneumonia.

The patients were registered as soon as they arrived.

Predicting that there were going to be questions why the government didn’t make a decision to stop flights from Italy, I must say that the government considered the possibility several times and came to the conclusion that the potential infected people can arrive in Armenia from Italy’s neighboring countries such as France and Austria since there are no restrictions within the EU.

In other words, with the same logic, the government had to close borders with other EU member states, especially since the coronavirus is also spreading to other countries across Europe.

Now airline companies have decided to cancel flights from Italy.

I must say that the people staying at Golden Palace Hotel and the first diagnosed patient are fine and have no complaints.

Dear compatriots, I ask you to keep calm and follow the advice of the Ministry of Healthcare regarding the preventive measures,” he wrote.