Belarus

Belarus president makes extraordinary claim that no-one will die from coronavirus in his country

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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko today made the incredible claim that no-one has died – or will die – from coronavirus in his repressive ex-Soviet state. The dictator ignored his own country’s official figures showing 29 deaths from Covid-19 and brushed aside complaints by doctors and human rights activists that he risks ‘genocide’ by not taking … Read more

The Covid denier: Belarus President says it will be beaten with vodka

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In the absence of an official Covid-19 death toll – at least one that anyone believes – the people of Belarus rely on an altogether more primitive source of information.  A street kiosk in the former Soviet republic’s fourth city, Vitebsk, bore a terse, medieval warning in red spray paint last week.  ‘Vitebsk, 22 corpses. … Read more