“We are already shouting with a whisper: do not go abroad, stay at home. No, anyway a rod beyond this border. Those who left after our warnings have no charters. Let them sit there if they went there, ”BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying.
He noted that cases when it is necessary to travel abroad are isolated - “let them coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leave, then we will be responsible for them.”
He also criticized Belarusians - Pole card holders who regularly travel across the Belarusian-Polish border.
“They roam, go back and forth, and we meet them and check everyone. We need to give a command to the border guards: if you want to go to Poland, you went there and sit there, ”Lukashenka concluded.
In Belarus, the number of people infected with COVID-19 coronavirus infection increased to 76.
Earlier it was reported that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makei asked his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for help in returning Belarusian citizens who were stuck abroad due to the situation with the coronavirus infection COVID-19.
Lukashenko also criticized the decision of many countries, including Russia, to close the borders due to the spread of the new coronavirus.