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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