The government is betraying signs of not knowing quite how to run a state of emergency – especially one instated to defend a population against an invisible virus.
There are worries that election observers from Armenia – which has been relatively hard-hit by the COVID-19 outbreak – could bring the virus into Karabakh.
Aspiring residents of the capital have historically had to register through an arcane Soviet-designed system. The government has offered a fix that is pleasing nobody.
As the government pretends everything is normal, families are in a state of deepening anxiety over a perfect storm that could plunge the country into an unusually severe crisis.
