Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said that his country did not close its borders during the Corona pandemic, in order to avoid the collapse of its economy.
“Belarus has not closed its borders at all since the beginning of the spread of the Corona virus. We have been criticized that we are hiding something, that we provided wrong data, and what To that … We chose our own way to fight the Corona virus, but we could not close, because we are not Russia. It can close, the pipes work, and it has huge wealth, huge reserves. ”
He stressed that Belarus “chose not to close the borders, because the economy would have collapsed if it did.”
Source: “Novosti”