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“Today you meet someone who has managed to contract coronavirus while working,” Lukashenko said, referring to a certificate issued by doctors on Monday.
The president is quoted by the state news agency BelTA.
He stated this during a meeting with the management and personnel of the units of the national security system.
Lukashenko apologized to those present for his husky voice.
“I apologize for my vote. There’s been a lot of talk lately, ”he said.
“As I said, 97 percent. Our population suffers from the asymptomatic form of this infection. Thank God I managed to get into these ranks of asymptomatic people,” said the president. “After contracting the virus, I finally entered the Belarusian Gold Fund. “
It is not said when Lukashenko specifically suffered from COVID-19.
Belorusskij insaider, a Telegram channel close to the president, said in turn that “according to accompanying medical reports, the president has not infected anyone.”
“Alexander Lukashenko is believed to have contracted the virus during a trip abroad,” the authors of the channel said.
At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met Lukashenko in Rzhev on June 30, is healthy, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
In the past, the Belarusian leader has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “psychosis”.
According to the Ministry of Health, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Belarus is 67,366, and 543 people have died from the disease.
Lukashenko will run for the sixth term in the August 9 presidential election.
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