‘Neighbors Were Told To ‘Sit Still And Silent’

A resident of Kalodzishchy, Minsk district, has been taken to the hospital with the suspicion of COVID-19.

A resident of the village of Kalodzischy, Minsk district has got to the hospital with the suspicion of the coronavirus infection, the man is under mechanical lungs ventilation. The doctors told his neighbours, who are actually the first-level contacts, to “sit still and silent”, the “Basta!” Telegram channel reports.

“My relative lives in the agro-town of Kalodzishchy near Minsk,” the channel’s subscriber writes. “He lives in a one-level house near the railway, it is divided into two apartments. The entire family of his neighbors got to the hospital with the coronavirus. One of them is on a ventilator.

My relative’s family asked the doctors about what they should do in this regard. They live in the same house, one backyard, common household buildings, they contacted all the time. They were told to “sit still and silent”. No one even mentioned self-isolation or tests. No one even asked how they were feeling.”