Ministry of Healthcare of Armenia notes that there is a 3-fold decrease of visits caused by ARVI to the outpatient clinics.
According to the Ministry's statement, the number of ambulance call-outs because of acute respiratory viral infections has also declined. As of today, compared to the third weak of January 2016, hospitalization of patients with ARVI declined by 15.6%, visits of pregnant women by 50%. "It may be assumed that there is decline of sickness of flu and ARVI", the Ministry's statement says. To note, 18 people died in total from "swine flu" in Armenia.