Karabakh fighting helping spread coronavirus in region: WHO
The Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenian forces has helped spread the coronavirus in the territory, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, according to AFP report.
"As we have been repeatedly saying, Covid 19 does not respect borders or lines," WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said at a press conference.
"The mobilization of troops for conflict, the displacement of populations because of it all, adds to the ability of the virus to take hold," Jasarevic added, as quoted by the source.
To remind, earlier Armenia's Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan has addressed a letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus over the military attack of Azerbaijan against the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
The minister urged the World Health Organization, which is a leading organization involved in the global coordination for mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic, to take appropriate measures to stop the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the military aggression of Azerbaijan and aggravated by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.