Turkmenistan WHO supports “no confirmation of corona infection” July 18 6:19
Turkmenistan in Central Asia, where the dictatorship continues, says no single person has been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus, but the World Health Organization (WHO) cannot rule out the possibility that the infection is spreading. We have started to support.
In Central Asian countries, more than 110,000 people were infected with the new coronavirus in total, but the Turkmenistan government has said that no single infected person has been confirmed.
Under these circumstances, WHO's European regional secretary Smallwood, who visited the site, held a press conference on the 15th of this month and said, "I am worried when I hear that there are patients with severe respiratory failure and pneumonia. "And advises the local government to take good public health measures."
Then, WHO set out to support the possibility that the spread of the infection could not be ruled out, and supplies such as medical equipment were delivered by air on the 16th.
In Turkmenistan, citizens were even forbidden to even talk about the virus, according to European media, because in Turkmenistan, the government suddenly called on people to wear masks this month, saying "the dust in the atmosphere has increased." It means that
It is believed that the Turkmenistan government, which strictly controls information under President Beldoim Hamedov, is trying to prevent the information about viruses from spreading among the people.