The order requesting coronavirus vaccination or PCR negative test certificates to visit public food venues in Armenia will be signed on Friday or Monday, Health minister Anahit Avanesyan told reporters Wednesday.

According to her, "there is a certain legal process" in connection with the signing of this order.

People and businesses in Armenia will be given three weeks after the publicizing to be notified of this order, after which people will be able to enter public food facilities as well as a number of other public areas in the country only in case of being vaccinated against COVID-119 or a negative result of a PCR test or a rapid test performed within 24 hours.

According to Avanesyan, this restriction will not have a negative impact on the activities of the public catering establishments in Armenia, as the number of vaccinated people in the country is already quite high.

To note, restaurateurs, however, do not share this opinion and are convinced that this order will reduce the turnover in Armenia’s restaurants.

Also, the health minister recalled that the people in Armenia shall carry out at their own expense all the interventions which are not carried out on the account of the Armenian state and are not specified in the free or privileged services provided by the state. That is, despite the fact that the Constitutional Court of Armenia deemed all the provisions of the order on taking PCR tests as constitutional, except for the phrase "at his own expense," an individual in Armenia shall take the coronavirus tests at his own expense or that of his "relatives."