Belarus has no lockdown

According to the country's health ministry yesterday, Belarus had reported 8,773 Coronavirus cases, 1,120 patients who have recovered and 63 deaths, meaning 7 deaths per million people. All the dead were suffering from chronic diseases. President Lukashenko, 'the last dictator in Europe', has not imposed a lockdown though, unlike in Sweden, parents have the choice about whether to send their children to school and less than 40 per cent of children do go to school. I wonder if children who are sent to school question if their parents are so very attached to them, though in fact children are in no danger at all.




Are these statistics likely to be true? Probably not but nor are they anywhere. Only crude death rates from all causes are not to be trusted. On the other hand, we'd have heard if big numbers of people were dying of the virus there.