{"id":987645550,"date":"2021-08-22T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/armenia-is-encouraging-vaccination-against-covid-19-by-mandating-biweekly-pcr-tests-for-the-unvaccinated\/"},"modified":"2021-08-22T05:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T04:46:27","slug":"armenia-is-encouraging-vaccination-against-covid-19-by-mandating-biweekly-pcr-tests-for-the-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/armenia-is-encouraging-vaccination-against-covid-19-by-mandating-biweekly-pcr-tests-for-the-unvaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia is encouraging vaccination against COVID-19 by mandating biweekly PCR tests for the unvaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>According to the Minister of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan (on the photo), persons unvaccinated from COVID-19 will have to take a PCR test for coronavirus twice a month. This policy will affect at least school teachers and university professors, employees of government bodies, local governments, workers of restaurants, cafes and catering facilities, and a number of other organizations. The Ministry of Health explained that introducing such a policy is dictated by the need to protect the citizens amid a steady growth of SARS-CoV-2 infection cases in the region, including in the neighboring countries. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>On August 12 after a Government meeting, Minister Avanesyan pointed out, that the Ministry of Health expected an increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the Fall due to the beginning of the academic year. The above-mentioned affected populations must accept this rule if they refused from vaccination, but had no contraindications. The Minister said that the coronavirus remained a serious challenge and everything needed to be done to protect the population. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>In addition, the Minister noted that Armenia was taking advantage of tools used in many other countries and was introducing similar restriction. Such a policy tool was justified by a threat to public health, which existed in addition to the health of a particular person. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Source:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/arminfo.info\/full_news.php?id=64464&amp;lang=2\">https:\/\/arminfo.info\/full_news.php?id=64464&amp;lang=2<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Minister of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan (on the photo), persons unvaccinated from COVID-19 will have to take a PCR test for coronavirus twice a month. This policy will affect at least school teachers and university professors, employees of government bodies, local governments, workers of restaurants, cafes and catering facilities, and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}