Address of Olympic Champion’s Daughter to Lukashenka: The Parade Looks Like a Deliberate Destruction of the Nation

Why are hospitals overcrowded?

Ksenia Parfenovich, daughter of Olympic champion in kayaking Uladzimir Parfenovich, sent an open letter to Aliaksandr Lukashenka. She expressed her civic position and sharply criticized the actions of the authorities in the situation with the coronavirus, reports Radio Svaboda.

Ksenia Parfenovich believes that people have the right to know the number of infected people, the danger of COVID-19, the number of victims.

"Stop deceiving people saying that God will help, the tractor cures, alcohol helps in prevention. Study the origin and impact of the virus. Tell us why hospitals and dormitories are filled with people tested positive for COVID-19 while nothing bad happens to us?" Ksenia Parfenovich writes in a letter to Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

Ksenia is 23, she works as a customer relations worker and a volunteer at a children's hospice. She sent the letter through the official portal - there is a function of "citizen appeals".

Ksenia told journalists that she didn't want to receive a formal reply "the letter is received, all measures are taken".

"I'm not interested in it. I want answers to my questions. The citizens of the country have the right to know the truth. I want Lukashenka to give the people honest, unbiased information, not understated statistics," said Ksenia.

"I ask you to consider my letter as an official statement, I'm waiting for an official answer to. I need a detailed explanation of the reasons for the refusal of quarantine, provision of the exact number of positive primary tests at the time of response to this appeal and grounding for your claims about alternative methods of treatment (God, tractor, alcohol)," writes Ksenia Parfenovich in his appeal to Lukashenka.

The girl says the coronavirus hasn't affected her family, relatives and friends yet. But her young man works as a doctor and spent 14 days in self-isolation because he was a "first-level contact". A colleague fell ill in the hospital where he works.

"All hospitals are overcrowded. Ambulances stand in line for six hours with patients. Quarantine is not officially declared. People walk around the city without masks. Masks sold in pharmacies do not protect. We need FFP3.

In other countries that have introduced quarantine on time, the epidemic has already decreased. We're still far from its height. If the quarantine is not introduced, the pandemic will cover the whole Minsk in September.

Holding a parade on May 9, the absence of quarantine looks like the deliberate destruction of the nation by the pandemic," said Ksenia Parfenovich.