There is no need for compulsory vaccination against COVID-19 in Belarus, said Alyaksandr Lukashenka, visiting the 2nd City Children’s Clinical Hospital on June 19.
“If such a situation arises, this principle will definitely be introduced. Thank God, there is no such a need,” said Lukashenka, BelTA informs.
As for the promised Belarusian vaccine, there are plans to create it only “next year.”
Vaccination failed
Belarusian political analyst and researcher Andrei Yeliseyeu has spoken about the failure of vaccination in Belarus on Facebook. He recalled that in December 2020, Health Minister Dzmitry Pinevich promised to vaccinate 1.2 million people by the end of spring and then reach the figure of 5.5 million vaccinations.
“That is, by June 1, the authorities promised to vaccinate 1.2 million, or about 13% of the population – a weak target, given that most European countries had already had 50 or more doses per 100 inhabitants by early summer. Even these plans, however, have failed. As of June 3, 560 thousand people (about 6%) received the first dose of vaccine, and less than 300 thousand (about 3% of the population) had completed the full course,” said Yeliseyeu.
According to him, Belarus also lacks vaccines. “We have to promptly ask Russia for 180 thousand doses given the shortage of the second component of the vaccine and to beg for Chinese vaccines not only directly sent from China but also through intermediaries such as the United Arab Emirates (10 thousand doses),” said the expert.
Public administration at the level of countries with a military disaster
“In general, not only containment of the epidemic but also vaccination has been a failure. There are only three countries in Europe where vaccination has been slower than in Belarus. They have experienced large-scale hostilities in the recent past or are still at war (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Ukraine).
Thus, the epidemic has exposed an unpleasant truth – the quality of governance in Belarus is at the level of states that have experienced socio-political disasters such as war,” said the political analyst.
In turn, we note that when the coronavirus epidemic began, statistical authorities stopped publishing statistics on mortality in the country. It has been missing for more than a year.
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