Health Minister Provides Misleading Information, Says Haik Manasyan

Doctor of gastroenterology Haik Manasyan wrote on his Facebook page: "Convey to Nikol Pashinyan that our non-existent Ministry of Health has provided him with incorrect information, claiming that the coronavirus spreads not only through droplets but also via airborne transmission. Citing this erroneous report, the Prime Minister mentioned the necessity of masks everywhere in yesterday's cabinet meeting.

In reality, the WHO states that airborne transmission occurs only during specific medical procedures, such as chest surgeries or in the reanimation of a patient's extubation. Let me inform the Deputy Ministers of Health, who lack medical education, that chest surgeries are not performed in open areas; they are not even done in malls or cafes. There are specific institutions for such operations, called hospitals. It is there that the mask is mandatory. Here are the references."