Nagorno-Karabakh The conflict has contributed to the spread of Covid-19 in the region, he warned on Tuesday World Health Organization (WHO).
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“As we have pointed out on several occasions, Covid-19 does not respect borders and lines,” Tarik Yasharevich, the WHO’s spokesman for the press, told a news conference.
“The mobilization of troops in the conflict, the relocation of the population because of all this, contributes to the virus’s ability to spread and strengthen,” said a WHO spokesman.
Due to the battles, the situation has already become more severe in the already overcrowded Armenia a Azerbaijan health systems, but the prevalence of Covid-19 virus has increased in both countries.
In 14 days in Armenia, the number of new cases of coronavirus has doubled, while in Azerbaijan it has increased by 80% in a week.
In Nagorno-Karabakh, heavy fighting between Armenian forces and the Azerbaijani army continued on Tuesday, with both sides accusing each other of violating the ceasefire.
Nagorno-Karabakh authorities report that since the start of the fighting on 27 September, the death toll has risen to 31 and the number of soldiers has fallen to 525.
Azerbaijan does not reveal how many have fallen on its side.
It was reported that Azerbaijani forces are helping Turkey Armed Forces officers and Turkish organized militants from Syrian.
The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikols Pašinjans has announced that a truce was reached with Russian entered into force on Saturday and was immediately violated, has not been maintained.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on both sides to respect the ceasefire.
There have been hostile relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 1990s, when there was a war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian population.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which was part of the Azerbaijani SSR during the Soviet era, has been a “de facto” independent Armenian republic since the early 1990s. Although Azerbaijan has not controlled Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the USSR, it considers the Armenian region to be its territory. Nagorno-Karabakh is also considered by the international community to be part of Azerbaijan, and no country has recognized the region as an independent state.
Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence in 1991. Its secession from Azerbaijan contributed to the outbreak of war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. About 35,000 people lost their lives in the war, and more than a million people in both countries were forced to flee their homes.
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