Armenia’s virus battle crippled by disinformation

Khachatryan (pic), unemployed surgeon and head of the NGO ‘Healthy Society’, 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. — AFP

YEREVAN: Marina Khachatryan is not the only person in ex-Soviet Armenia who believes the coronavirus is a government conspiracy.

But her large following online means her scepticism has a wide, potentially even dangerous reach.