Covid-19 patients with no symptoms will not be isolated, to be treated in home conditions

Armenia’s health minister Arsen Torosyan applied to primary health preservation circle, to doctors of policlinics saying that hundreds of citizens having tested positive will return to their homes from isolation places in a few days.

He said the patients with no symptoms will be taken back to their homes while the newly diagnosed citizens will not be isolated in hotels or hospitals.

“Their home control will fall on your shoulders,” he wrote on Facebook, adding that it will be like control over those having acute respiratory infections.

“This change is agreed with two circumstances. The first one is that the number of citizens testing positive grows from day to day, the second is the change of strategy regarding the optimal usage of beds and other resources,” he stressed.

The minister stressed that for the smooth implementation of this change of the strategy, the Ministry’s National Institute of Health will implement remote classes on procedures necessary for covid-positive patients in home conditions.

Torosyan urged to actively participate in the classes.

He said a special call center will be established in Surb Grigor Lusavorich medical center envisaged for doctors where the specialists having the best experience will provide consultation to their colleagues.