YEREVAN. – It is not ruled out that a person who has been infected with and treated for the coronavirus once and can be re-infected.

Three persons in Armenian have already been diagnosed with coronavirus again after being discharged from the hospital. The Minister of Health, Arsen Torosyan, stated about this at Monday’s special sitting of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Health Care and Social Affairs.

"We have isolated them again to prevent a possible infection," the minister added. "Such cases have been reported in China and South Korea. It is not a double infection, but the maintenance of virus particles in the tissues of the mouth and throat, which is detected in two to three months."

According to him, safety rules must be observed even after being discharged from hospital.