Media Review for July 2, 2020

Treatment of asymptomatic patients with coronavirus at home, causes of water deficiency, and unemployment are topics of today's media.

The official newspaper Azerbaijan writes about the treatment of asymptomatic patients at home. For their treatment, special guidelines have been prepared and medical institutions have been identified. Medical teams will visit such patients at home.

Currently, about 2 thousand people in Baku and the suburbs are registered in clinics.

The website Oxu.az discusses the issue of water shortages by publishing the speech of the head of Azersu Gorkhmaz Huseynov at a meeting of the parliamentary committee on ecology on July 1.

According to him, in the Caucasus as a whole, water reserves amount to 310 billion cubic meters. The amount of water per person in Azerbaijan is lower than in neighboring countries.

The pollution of the Kura and Araz rivers by neighboring countries exacerbates the situation. In addition, the head of Azersu added, some sources remained under the constructions erected in recent decades. The causes of the deficit are also an increase in the population of the capital, the development of tourism, as well as squandering.

The Azadlıqinfo website discusses unemployment with experts. During the quarantine regime, it was revealed that the number of unemployed in the country is much larger than that announced by official structures. So, 600 thousand people applied for a benefit of 190 manat and 1 million 250 thousand unemployed turned to the Ministry of Labor.