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Azerbaijan declares special quarantine due to coronavirus

23.03.2020 [22:09]
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Baku, March 23, AZERTAC

Chaired by Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Ali Asadov, a meeting has been held at the Cabinet of Ministers.

The meeting featured discussions on the situation related to coronavirus infection in the country and a decision was made to declare a special regime to prevent the spread of the virus.

"Given the experience of different countries in combating coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic around the world, and setting the protection of public health as the ultimate goal, a special quarantine is declared in the Republic of Azerbaijan from 00:00, March 24, 2020 to 00:00, April 20, 2020 in accordance with the Article 25 of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on sanitary-epidemiological safety in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection in the country," the statement by the Task Force under the Cabinet of Ministers said.