The world has already reported more than 3 million people infected with the new coronavirus and more than 250,000 deaths. However, there are countries that did not report any cases carrying COVID-19, which leads us to ask ourselves: What can it be? Are you serious or are they lying to us? What did these countries do to prevent contagion and dodge the global health crisis? What can we learn from your experiences fighting the virus?
These will be several of the questions answered by this new episode of Filo.Explica, the original segment of Filo.News hosted by Lalo Mir on YouTube. “Places that have not reported cases are mainly small island countries in Oceania and some from Africa. But the most striking cases of countries that today continue to claim that they have no coronavirus infected are Turkmenistan (an Asian country with nearly 6 million inhabitants, located in the center of the continent) and North Korea,” explains the driver.
In Turkmenistan, where an authoritarian government rules, state television channels generalize their recommendations, calling them “prevention of seasonal acute respiratory diseases” and seek other synonyms not to mention the forbidden word: yes, “coronavaaairus”. In this sense, the government of Turkmenistan intends to erase any trace of coronavirus, and according to them, avoid the panic of society, although what they do is deny a reality and misinform the citizens who practically live in a bubble. In addition to the extreme measures in the territory, such as: limiting travel between provinces, establishing temperature controls at the entrance of the capital, Asjabad, and asking the population to stay at home and extreme hand washing. Let’s continue with other countries that repel covid. In “the age of social distance,” being located in a remote corner of the Earth with little accessibility, is an unmatched advantage in order not to suffer the impact of the pandemic. This is the case of Tuvalu, a small archipelago, located in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Australia.Among other cases are Tuvalu (a small archipelago, located in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and Australia), the Republic of Vanuatu or Kiribati (archipelagos located in the Pacific Ocean, with a population of between 100 thousand and 300 thousand people); Nauru (formed by an island, very close to Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, is the third smallest country in the world); Marshall Islands and solomon islands; Palau; Samoa; Tonga; Lesotho; and the Comoros (South Africa). He is a neighbor and chief partner and business partner of the country where the pandemic began, and they have no coronavirus infected. Don’t you have or are lying and you don’t want to report them? What steps did you take? What can we copy from your strategy to see if we can slow the progress of the pandemic? To answer these questions we invite you to look at this special. In this note:
