President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes that he was deliberately infected with a coronavirus infection. The politician said this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, which will be released on the YouTube channel of the “Visiting Gordon” program on August 6 at 18:00.
“They planted the coronavirus on me. We are now investigating this, ”the editor-in-chief of the“ Gordon ”newspaper Alesya Batsman, who was present in Minsk at the interview, quoted Lukashenka as saying on his Facebook page.
Earlier, on July 28, the Belarusian leader said that he had suffered a coronavirus on his feet and had no symptoms of the disease.
In April, he announced his readiness to personally treat people infected with this infection. He threatened the government with resignation if personal protective equipment was not enough during the pandemic.
According to the statistics bureau Worldometer, as of August 6, 68,503 cases of coronavirus were detected in Belarus for the entire period. 580 patients died, 63 756 people were cured.