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The Grand Place in Brussels two days after Belgium's semi-lockdown (Photo: Alice Latta)

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Brussels: Elderly people on virus front line

The Grand Place in Brussels two days after Belgium's semi-lockdown (Photo: Alice Latta)

Emine knows war.

In the early 1990s she fled the fighting in Croatia before moving to the outskirts of Belgium's capital city Brussels.

"It is a bit scary when you have lived something like that and you see empty grocery shop shelves or streets, those are reminders," she tells EUobserver.

As a caretaker nurse specialised in helping elderly people who live alone, she is today facing a new kind of battle.

The pandemic caused by Covid-19 has spread throughout much of the...

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