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Armenia’s economy was breaking apart during the coronavirus lockdown in April, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

Therefore, the government decided to lift the economic restrictions as the lockdown did not bring the new coronavirus cases down to zero.

Pahinyan believes had Armenia remained under lockdown, the country could have seen from 100,000 to 150,000 job cuts instead of the 70,000 reported in May.

“In this respect I would like to highlight the fact that we managed to avoid renewed lockdown, because it shows that tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs with all social, economic and other consequences stemming from it," Pashinyan said.

Separately, he again denounced some false claims that a microchip implant will come with coronavirus vaccines or there is no such virus.

The PM states the infection is now spreading among those people who pointedly refuse to wear face masks even after being fined.