Belarusian President Alexander LukashenkoMINSK, January 20Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the second time has been ill with COVID-19, Sputnik reports. According to him, this time he became infected with the omicron strain. “We notice that this omicron is a completely different virus. Maybe I suspect that we have already slipped into the usual flu. I say this as a person who himself has been ill for the second time — already with this «omicron» — said Lukashenka at a meeting with the head of Tuva Vladislav Khovalyg. The fact that he had COVID-19 was announced by the Belarusian leader at the end of July 2020. According to him, the disease was asymptomatic, and sports and outdoor walks helped to overcome it. In October last year, Lukashenka expressed his readiness to be vaccinated, but with the Belarusian vaccine. It is still being developed, it is expected that the drug will be released into civilian circulation in the first half of 2023.
