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Armenia fights war with COVID-19 complicated by Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Armenia fights war with COVID-19 complicated by Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and MARIA TSVETKOVA EMMA Mkrtchyan died at home, bedridden and showing severe symptoms of COVID-19. Even though the 83-year-old Armenian's blood oxygen levels were far below normal, the ambulance called by her family refused to take her to hospital. "Even if they had taken her to hospital, there would anyway have been a queue and no places available," her daughter-in-law, Gayane Mkrtchyan, told Reuters. Armenia's healthcare system is dangerously overstretched as it deals with one of the world's worst COVID-19 outbreaks on top of an influx of refugees and soldiers wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh during the region's bloodiest fighting…
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