Topic: COVID-19

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The World Bank has approved $7.4 million in fresh loans designed to help the Armenian government build and equip two new provincial hospitals. In a statement issued[...]

DETROIT — Though everyone in the country and the world has been massively impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the most affected populations has been the elderly and those[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The pro-government majority in the National Assembly has given the green light to a parliamentary inquiry into the Armenian government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic demanded by[...]

MONTREAL – Pharmacist Ari Nazaretian and pathologist Dr. Aren Manoukian, two members of the Tekeyan Cultural Association of Montreal, talk about the novel coronavirus and its newly available vaccines in[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — President Armen Sarkissian has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Tuesday, January 5. A statement released by the office said Sarkissian, 67, took the[...]

If there were any way possible, many people would certainly like to wipe the year 2020 off the calendar and delete it forever from the sequence of chronology in time.[...]

Performance: most people in Armenia equate the word solely with theater and ballet.   For mime, choreographer and movement guru Vahram Zaryan, this status quo some thirty years after the[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s police have warned citizens to abide by the mandatory rule of wearing face masks in all public spaces or face fines as the numbers of new coronavirus[...]

By Thomas Toghramadjian Special to the Mirror-Spectator DEBED — In ordinary times, the start of classes at Debed Secondary School in the province of Lori means a day of celebration,[...]

GLENDALE/PASADENA — Talar A. is in second grade. She was one of the 26,000 students in the Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) who never went back to school last March[...]