An unprecedented step: Lukashenko closes borders to ‘shrewd’ Belarusians who fled country during coronavirus pandemic

Like much of Europe, Belarus

Like much of Europe, Belarus has closed its land boundaries to combat the spread of Covid-19. However, in an extraordinary move, President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered border guards to refuse entry even to its own citizens.

Speaking on Thursday at a government meeting about the coronavirus, Lukashenko revealed that Belarus would no longer accept people crossing the state’s frontiers, regardless of their passport.

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