Increasing Number Of Deaths Caused By Coronavirus Reported In Belarus

Has our country reached the epidemic peak?

The "Basta!" Telegram channel writes that subscribers are increasingly reporting deaths ok f COVID-19. The editors of the channel cite four letters that were received last night and this morning:

“I called my friend Pavel K., who is an Afghan veteran,” a reader writes. “A week ago, the coronavirus diagnosis was confirmed with regard to his whole family. He is 54, also sick. His wife and daughter had no symptoms. His mother was immovable. She was not admitted to the hospital. My friend rented an oxygen device himself. Yesterday morning I called, his mother was still alive. She died in the evening."

"Our friend died of the coronavirus, a SWAT soldier from the Maryina Horka brigade. Aliaksandr I., served there for 58 years. He died on May 13, our brother was buried in the Northern cemetery on May 16. Yes, he did not have a kidney, but was put in the hospital with the coronavirus symptoms. He had three tests, the third was positive. They put him on a ventilator. For four days he had been lying under this machine, dying. But they wrote in the death certificate "renal failure."

"A 45-year-old driver of the Brest bus fleet has died. Everything would have been fine, but it was in this organization that almost all of its management had been infected with the coronavirus, which has already been officially confirmed. Moreover, all the details of what happened are hidden."

"Uladzimir P., a doctor at the Salihorsk Central Regional Hospital, has died. He had all the symptoms of the coronavirus, the first test came back negative, and he did not live to receive the results of the second one. His last few days passed in the intensive care unit."

In addition, today the following deaths have been reported:

- a doctor in the Buda-Koshaleva rural hospital;

- an ambulance driver from Myadzel;

- a resident of Stolin, who was buried in a coffin tightly wrapped in plastic film;

- nurses of the Minsk Regional Clinical Hospital;

- a 50-year-old employee of the Minsk Automobile Plant;

- an elderly woman from Navahradak;

- a 33-year-old functionary in the field of housing and communal services from Minsk.

Let us note once again that this is only the information that today appeared in independent media and Telegram channels.