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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Facebook that the country recorded its highest number of new coronavirus cases yesterday with 723 confirmed Covid-19 cases. Six more deaths have been reported, while the recoveries stand at 442. “I am truly saddened,” the PM said during a live, adding the reason is not the high number of cases but the fact that the public largely ignores the safety rules.

“I think the problem has gone beyond the coronavirus issue. We should try to analyze the dominating behaviors in the public from a different perspective. I witnessed people without face masks, and the impression was they were heading for intensive care units,” said Pashinyan.

“What I saw demonstrated the public collective attitude toward the state order,” Pashinyan concluded, adding: “We lacked the state order for 600 years and didn’t have the one we enjoyed. The state order for us has been alien and something that had been imposed by others which is the reason it has always been associated with violence,” Pashinyan noted.

In Pashinyan’s opinion, the revolution of 2018 however came to free the public from that perception. He once again called for following the anti-epidemic rules.