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04 December 2020, 17:28

Lukashenko talks about fake news about his visit to Vitebsk, state of affairs in hospitals

VITEBSK, 4 December (BelTA) – During the session of the Vitebsk Oblast coronavirus response team on 4 December Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko talked about fake news regarding his visit to Vitebsk and the state of affairs in hospitals, BelTA has learned.

During the conference the head of state made a few comments in response to rumors and fake news that had been spread via Telegram channels ahead of his arrival in Vitebsk. “Before my arrival in Vitebsk Oblast the scoundrels wrote – it is even uncomfortable for me to read it – that a number of KGB servicemen had been deployed in advance. As far as I know, all the KGB servicemen are in their offices. I talked to [KGB Chairman] Ivan Tertel in the morning – everyone is in their offices,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.

Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that KGB personnel are not involved in preparing a city for his arrival. The presidential security service is the agency in charge of security matters. It is a standard international practice.

“Then they write: ‘It is obvious he is going to say that everything is fine in the country and we will defeat the coronavirus. One wonders what the nurses and orderlies, who sleep on the floor during brief breaks in their duties, will tell him.' What a load of nonsense. Don't they know that nurses or doctors don't sleep at all while on duty? If they are on duty, they must not sleep,” Aleksandr Lukashenko pointed out.

Speaking about fake news about the shortage of disposable individual protective gear that forces doctors to disinfect the disposable products and continue wearing them, Aleksandr Lukashenko said that there is plenty of individual protective gear in the country. The president himself puts on one and the same medical suit before visiting a healthcare institution. “They don't make me new lab coat, trousers, a T-shirt, and a scrub cap on the eve of the visit. Those are disinfected in a Minsk hospital and I put them on again,” he said. “I don't know anyone who reuses disposable individual protective gear many times. We have plenty of disposable gear.”

Telegram channels also claim that there is no clear separation between the red zone and the clean zone in hospitals. It is a complete lie, Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed. “I changed my clothes in the clean zone together with you [during the visit to a maternity home in Vitebsk], entered the sluice and it was written ‘Red zone' there. I put on this ‘muzzle' and went on. I left the zone, went through the sluice into the clean zone,” he noted.

The list of similar fake news goes on and on, the head of state added. “This is the way the scoundrels ‘respect' medics. I don't even want to read on about low salaries and medics being forced to work above and beyond their duty. Medics are the source of information. Maybe I shouldn't have read it but those are scum. I would like to ask these vile people one question. Do you remember when the European Union allocated €54 million to infamous protesters and these wannabe writers after the presidential election? And €52 million for COVID-19 treatment. Representatives of the European Union stated they had sent the money to the civil society for the sake of treating COVID-19. Where is the money? Why don't they write about the €52 million?”

“This money is funneled to those who roam the streets. You may have read their statements and you can see that they don't have enough money. Those who have fled the country (probably about 150 people already) intercept the money on the way here. And our infamous protesters, who face riot police batons as they say, can smell it: ‘We deal with police batons while they take away our money.' Their money is here. They are getting paid in order to lie about and besmirch the decent people, who are fighting in these red zones today,” Aleksandr Lukashenko concluded.

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