Turkmenistan claims it hasn't had a single Covid-19 case. Activists say that's a lie

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In the nearly two years since the pandemic began, Turkmenistan has not seen a single case of Covid-19.

Or at least, that's what the central Asian country's secretive, authoritarian government claims.

Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic home to nearly 6 million people, is one of at least five countries that have not reported any coronavirus cases, according to a review of data collected by Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization. Three of those are isolated islands in the Pacific and the fourth is North Korea, a tightly-controlled hermit state.

Turkmenistan's repressive President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who has ruled since 2006, has dismissed reports of Covid-19 in the country as "fake" and told the United Nations in an address Tuesday that the response to the pandemic shouldn't be "politicized."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/turkmenistan-claims-it-hasn-t-had-a-single-covid-19-case-activists-say-that-s-a-lie/ar-AAONfem

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1. So that's where all the horse dewormer disappeared.