Armenia to provide financial support to citizens who lost daily paychecks due to coronavirus

13:26, 2 April, 2020

YEREVAN, APRIL 2, ARMENPRESS. In additional to eight previously approved multi-billion-dram relief packages for businesses and employees and other hardest-hit segments of society during the COVID-19 pandemic, Armenia has announced one more aid package directed at supporting people who earn daily paychecks.

“Dear fellow countrymen, I have been receiving many letters where people are telling me their situation, that they have kids and they have no source of income now, because they have been employees working on daily paychecks and now they are unemployed due to the coronavirus. Today we approved the 9^th relief package, which will provide a single-payment support to our compatriots of this group. In total, we have approved 9 anti-crisis measures, 4 of which are economic support and 5 are social assistance packages,” the PM said.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS