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The country has belatedly introduced a COVID pass system to enter restaurants and bars as the vaccination rate remains at just 28 percent.

Employers are now effectively required to demand proof of vaccinations from their workers. But the country’s health care system is now being pushed to the limit.

The government hopes to boost vaccination rates, but a new anti-vaccine campaign is on the rise.

The new rules come as the country is trying to stave off a third wave of the virus and vaccination numbers remain in the low single digits.

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

Analysts believe the country may be benefiting from herd immunity after devastation last year.

The COVID-19 vaccination experiences of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show that if you’re a small and poor country, you need to rely on powerful friends.

Armenia is taking a faster route to in-person classes than its Caucasus neighbors, but it is adopting a number of precautions to make sure that schools don’t spread the virus.

The prime minister said the once heavily infected country can now “break the back” of the novel coronavirus.

“It was the pandemic that hit the economy hard, not the lockdown itself.”

"Our strategy is to learn how to live alongside the virus."

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan cited the coronavirus for missing the big event, but the real reasons appear to be crises at home.

In several cases, the employers themselves have been the ones thwarting their workers from getting stimulus money.

Some patients have died because of a lack of hospital capacity, but the country has added several hundred more beds.