The number of new cases of the coronavirus has increased by 437 percent in the last 14 days in Armenia, and the latter is now in the dark red zone according to EU standards. Romella Abovyan, head of the Epidemiology Department of Nosocomial Infections at the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health, told about this to a press conference Wednesday.

As per the specialist, the respective positive test results in the country were 38.5 percent during the last 14 days, whereas they were 10.5 percent in the previous 14 days.

Moreover, the cases of COVID-19 continue to increase in Armenia’s children aged 0 to 18.

The increased cases are reported in all provinces of Armenia, but they are even higher in the capital Yerevan.

Abovyan added that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is now spreading in Armenia, but those infected with it are less likely to need hospitalization than those who had contracted the previous—Delta—variant.