In Belarus, it became known about the death of the first patient, who was diagnosed with coronavirus. The President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said this at a meeting with Chairman of the upper chamber of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalia Kochanova
the Press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus the Victim of virus has become the actor of Drama theater named after Yakub Kolas, Viktar Dashkevich, he was 75 years old
the national academic drama theatre. Yakub Kolas
Belarus has learned of the death of the first patient, who was diagnosed with coronavirus. The President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said this at a meeting with Chairman of the upper chamber of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalia Kochanova. According to him, the deceased residents of Vitebsk had other comorbidities.
“the Sameon healthy (she lived with her husband), her daughter is healthy. Because the immune system is strong. And he, poor fellow, did not survive. Was admitted with severe pneumonia on mechanical ventilation were saving it,” – quoted Lukashenko BelTA. Some of the news of the death of patient with coronavirus on the website of state news Agency no, the incident mentioned in passing in the article devoted to the meeting with Lukashenko Kochanova.
the Victim of virus has become the actor of Drama theater named after Yakub Kolas, Viktar Dashkevich, he was 75 years old. The death of the man has confirmed to the portal Tut.by his daughter. Theatre, where he served, now supposedly closed due to the low number of viewers. Abroad Dashkevich did not go.
the First information about the death of Dashkevich with reference to the message of his wife appeared in the Belarusian opposition media around 10 am. Four hours later, the President of Belarus announced the first deaths, but even then the public media has not appeared no mention of the death of the artist, also there is practically no official information about the number of infected, the newspaper notes “the Rise” in his Telegram channel.
the wife of the actor told Our Field” , that they both were diagnosed with pneumonia, the spouses were sent to hospitalization to the TB dispensary. However, it was full spouses have prescribed antibiotics and sent me home. Once home, the actor’s temperature rose, both sent a dermatovenerologic dispensary and took tests for coronavirus, “but said the results are negative”.
“Together with the actor was the man who later was taken from the hospital. Why and where – no one said. Then he lay with the other three men,” reports the portal. On 24 March Dashkevich was worse and he was transferred to the Vitebsk regional clinical center of specialized. There he took a new analysis of coronavirus. On 26 March it became known that the result is positive.
Wife Dashkevich wrote on 26 March, she is on a 14-day KaranTina, while he was in intensive care on a ventilator. As reported by the wife of an actor he had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
According to Ministry of health of Belarus, in the country identified 152 cases of infection with coronavirus infection, recovered 47 people. In the Republic has not yet introduced restrictive measures. Lukashenka opposes tougher isolation, believing that trapping people “in these rotten flats is not a method”.
“Opens a lot of problems that need to work and not to close the border and drive people home. We have always been taught, you remember: if SARS, influenza, etc., need to go outside, breathe the fresh air, ventilate the room,” said the President.
According to him, after sitting in a closed apartment, people are then often it’s too late in critical condition, arrive for treatment. “So I don’t understand those who today advises to isolate, to close, to block. We have to work as we always did, spot,” – said the head of state. However, he said that didn’t test for coronavirus and does not know whether he survived himself up or not.
Lukashenko also said that deaths from other diseases, there is a “hundred times more” than the coronavirus. “We have hundreds of times more deaths from other diseases than from viruses. We just focused everything on it. We have patients with cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthmatics, we have just the people who are sick with pneumonia, without any complications,” he listed the President, stressing that such patients should not be forgotten.
Lukashenko added that Belarus is, in principle, is at the peak of viral diseases. “I already pray to God before Easter this peak has gone down,” he said. Also, the Belarusian leader said he sees no reason to move the presidential elections to be held no later than August 30. To postpone the election, he said, offer “no the enemies, not rivals”.
Earlier, Lukashenko called the situation with coronavirus “psychosis”. He recommended that the Belarusians “treated” from the coronavirus alcohol, bath and selhozarteli. In mid-March, the President of Belarus sharply criticized Russia’s decision to close the border with the Republic in connection with the coronavirus, considering it almost as a personal insult and another round of tension between the two brotherly countries. Later, however, the Belarusian national airline “Belavia” has helped to export from Egypt stuck there Russian tourists.
