Coronavirus with his mutations and new strains remains a real threat to all countries, despite the already created vaccines and other measures to combat pandemics. This opinion was expressed by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting on the epidemiological situation, BelTA reports.
According to him, the authorities of the republic should do everything possible to reduce the rates of incidence of the virus. At the same time, the head of state criticized the idea of forced vaccination and fines for the lack of masks, as well as announced militia raids.
“Why are you kidding people?”, – said Lukashenko and asked for not to strain the Belarusians. However, he recalled that it was necessary to vaccinate all the same, otherwise negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin on deliveries to Belarusian Vaccine Vaccine can be considered meaningless.
Earlier in Belarus, a number of quarantine restrictions were introduced against the background of increasing the number of COVID-19 diseases. In particular, from October 9, wearing masks and compliance with the social distance in public places has become mandatory. In case of violation of administrative regulations, citizens will have to pay a fine. From October 13, sudden sanitary raids began to be held in the Minsk subway.
October 12 in the country per day revealed a record number of contaminated coronavirus – 2038 people. In total, from the beginning of the pandemic in the country, more than 561 thousand infected coronavirus were revealed. 4319 contaminated.
The authorities of the republic initially did not introduce severe quarantine restrictions due to coronavirus. Lukashenko explained it with economic reasons and called psychosis occurring around a pandemic.