16-06-2020 04:10 via news.yahoo.com

Armenia's virus battle crippled by disinformation

Marina Khachatryan is not the only person in ex-Soviet Armenia who believes the coronavirus is a government conspiracy.The unemployed surgeon runs the Facebook page of a local group critical of the government's health policies, where thousands of followers are treated to a regular dose of false claims about the pandemic.The Armenian government has come under fire for responding too slowly to the pandemic, which has seen the country's prime minister infected, quarantine rules ignored and hospital
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