COVID-19: Armenia reports 861 new cases, 1223 recoveries in one day

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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, ARMENPRESS. 861 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 152,253, the ministry of healthcare said today.

1223 more patients have recovered in one day. The total number of recoveries has reached 131,213.

2567 tests were conducted in the past one day.

15 more patients have died, raising the death toll to 2596.

The number of active cases is 17,796.

The number of patients who had coronavirus but died from other disease has reached 648 (6 new such cases).

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

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