Belarusian Healthcare Minister Vladimir Karanik explained the advantages of the coronavirus mitigation strategy as he addressed the parliament on 9 April.
According to the minister, there are two strategies to stem the spread of the virus – the so-called mitigation strategy and the suppression strategy. “At present Sweden and Belarus are Europe's only countries to use the mitigation strategy. All the other states have switched to the suppression strategy. The essence of the latter is total isolation,” Vladimir Karanik explained.