{"id":302449,"date":"2020-05-31T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=302449"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:08:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T10:08:13","slug":"ministry-of-health-appeals-to-doctors-to-join-covid-10-teams-while-infections-dramatically-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/05\/31\/ministry-of-health-appeals-to-doctors-to-join-covid-10-teams-while-infections-dramatically-spike.html","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Health Appeals to Doctors to Join COVID-10 Teams while Infections Dramatically Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New COVID-19 cases average around 450 daily in the recent couple of days, with a daily death toll averaging around a dozen. Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan appealed to doctors, especially those specialized in Intensive Care, to join the teams working at IC units at hospitals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than 350 patients are in a critical condition with 18 connected to ventilation machines. &#8220;We need your support to work with patients with critical care needs,&#8221; wrote Torosyan on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>460 new COVID-19 cases on May 29, 442 new cases on May 28, around 1100 tests daily; these are the figures of the spread of COVD-18 for only the last couple of days. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports 8 cases of deaths for May 29 and another 15 the day before. The Ministry&#8217;s figures differentiate deaths directly from COVID-19 and deaths of patients with COVID-19 from other illnesses. In total, Armenia has had 8676 cases of the new coronavirus infections, with 3297 persons cured, 5214 persons under treatment, 165 dead of which 45 died &#8220;from other conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has also released general guidelines of handling home-care for patients. The instructions are related to prevention of infection spread within the home setting, disinfection, home isolation conditions etc. COVID-19 positive persons are instructed to self-isolate at home and undergo treatment under their local district doctor&#8217;s supervision who is supposed to check up on them twice daily and make home visits if necessary. More critical conditions will be treated under hospital care.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 patients are in a critical condition with 18 connected to ventilation machines. &#8220;We need your support to work with patients with critical care needs,&#8221; wrote Torosyan on his Facebook page.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66056],"tags":[78744,77573,77783,78745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}