CORONAVIRUS After Lukashenko’s criticism in Belarus abolished the obligation to wear a veil – Topky.sk

According to her, Lukashenko demanded at one of the meetings on Tuesday that the citizens of Belarus should not be pressured to wear drapes, maintain safe separations and vaccinate against COVID-19. He wanted it to apply unconditionally and immediately. “No pressure on people,” Lukashenko stressed.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Health published a statement on its channel on the Telegram social network that “the use of personal protective equipment by individuals in the interior of buildings and when traveling in car, sea, air and rail transport – with the exception of car travel – is no longer mandatory”.

Lukashenko said on Wednesday that he was ready to be vaccinated against covid, but only with a Belarusian vaccine. He justified this attitude by saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and that US President Joe Biden was again vaccinated with a “pfizer”. “It is very clear to us that vaccinated people get less ill, and if they get sick, nothing like that happens. That’s a clinically proven fact.” Lukashenko explained.

Own vaccine

Belarusian Health Minister Dzmitry Pinevich said the Belarusian-made vaccine would be ready for use in 2023. He added that “we will meet all safety, availability and quality criteria”. “In two years, we will have our own vaccine that will allow us to look to the future and fight pandemics of various kinds,” said the minister on Wednesday at an international conference in Minsk.

On Friday, BelTA reported that almost 2.7 million Belarusians could be vaccinated with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with more than 2.02 million fully vaccinated. On Friday, 2,082 people with confirmed COVID-19 disease registered in Belarus. Since the outbreak, 582,111 people have tested positive for covid. So far, 4,482 people have succumbed to the covidom infection in Belarus, BelTA added.