As of now, 16 people with acute respiratory infections are at the intensive care unit in Armenia; and all of them are children aged 0-4. Dr. Yevgenya Khachatryan, an epidemiologist at the Department of Epidemiology of Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Armenia, stated this at a press conference Friday.

"Complaints of acute respiratory infections are very different: starting from a runny nose, there can be a sore throat, there can be fever or without fever, and of course, an ear infection, and it can end with pneumonia," Khachatryan added.