Belarus refused to purchase Russian tests

Belarus has refused to purchase 30,000 tests from Russia for the diagnosis of coronavirus infection COVID-19, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei stated about it.

“We don’t need these tests now: we produce tests ourselves, and we got about 50,000 more tests from other countries,” said Makei.

Commenting on the statement by the press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov that Russia is helping Belarus to combat the coronavirus, the Minister said that “we would want to understand what was going on”.

According to the latest data, the number of people infected with coronavirus in Belarus is 1, 981, 19 people have died.