A doctor swabs an elderly woman as she administers a Covid-19 test in the city of Stepanakert on Friday. Photo: AFP
A doctor swabs an elderly woman as she administers a Covid-19 test in the city of Stepanakert on Friday. Photo: AFP

In Nagorno-Karabakh’s bomb shelters, residents safe from shelling but not coronavirus

  • A three-storey building in Stepanakert has been repurposed as a bomb shelter, where residents seek refuge from shelling by Azerbaijan’s forces
  • ‘The infection rate is quite high’, a doctor says because ‘people are living in groups in basements without masks’

A doctor swabs an elderly woman as she administers a Covid-19 test in the city of Stepanakert on Friday. Photo: AFP
A doctor swabs an elderly woman as she administers a Covid-19 test in the city of Stepanakert on Friday. Photo: AFP
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