ArmInfo.The Armenian government will continue to develop anti-crisis measures aimed at overcoming the consequences of the coronavirus. This was announced on April 4 at a meeting on the implementation of capital expenditures, said Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
According to him, the spread of infection is observed all over the world, 1.119 million cases of infection have been confirmed, 59245 deaths have been recorded, 229 thousand people have recovered. Unfortunately, as the head of government noted, the tendency towards the spread of COVID-19 is also observed in Armenia. At the moment, 770 cases have been confirmed, 7 deaths, 43 people have recovered. Of the total number of confirmed cases, more than 500 do not receive treatment, because they do not even have a fever. However, they are carriers of the virus, and for this reason are isolated.
As Nikol Pashinyan noted, the COVID-19 epidemic has led to economic complications. The most important task of the government, he continued, is to make decisions that will help prevent the spread of the virus. In this context, 9 anti-crisis measures have been developed and approved, of which 5 are social and 4 are of an economic nature. Nikol Pashinyan noted that, in fact, the activities of the government were transformed into the activities of the operational headquarters to overcome the crisis. And here it is important to evaluate approaches to solving socio-economic problems. Due to the spread of the virus in the labor market, serious changes will occur, and the task of the executive body should be to create new jobs, including through the effective implementation of capital expenditures. Today, the commandant's office of the state of emergency is, on the one hand, the task of preventing the spread of the virus, and on the other - creating conditions for the activities of companies and organizations, expanding the conditions for economic activity. And here, as the Prime Minister noted, it is extremely important to effectively use the possibilities of capital construction. Traditionally, underperformance has always been observed for this component, but each underperformed percentage is the fate of people, new jobs, etc. For this reason, the head of government again called for more efficient use of the potential of capital construction.
