Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who turned 45 today, said he and his family had tested positive for the new coronavirus and that he would be working from home, according to AFP.

In a video message posted on Facebook, he said that his “coronavirus test was positive yesterday” and that his wife and four children were also infected.

He did not have any “visible symptoms” and would be working from home “to the best of my ability”, Pashinyan added in the clip he recorded himself.

The ex-Soviet republic with a population of around three million people has registered 9,492 coronavirus cases and 139 deaths.

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