As maps continued to get covered in red inks in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, there are still shameful of countries that have not reported a single case. Could these country be hiding the truth or their citizens are immune to the virus truly? This is hard to know especially for one of the countries- Turkmenistan.
For one, Turkmenistan is one of the most repressive states in the world, which is giving health officials a cause for concern that the government of this country might be hiding the truth.

Source: https://www.tobivibes.ng/covid-19-turkmenistan-has-reported-no-cases-of-coronavirus-here-is-why/

This is after the country is holding a mass cycling rally today, to mark World Health Day, at a time when other countries are scrambling to put the Coronavirus at bay and keeping their shores under lock and key.

The country claims that it still has zero report of the virus,but health officials believes this to be far from the truth as the country has shown time and time again to being the act of censoring information leaving its shores.

Professor Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has studied the Turkmen healthcare system has this to say, “Official health statistics from Turkmenistan are notoriously unreliable.

“For the past decade, they have claimed to have no people living with HIV/Aids, a figure that is not plausible. We also know that, in the 2000s, they suppressed evidence of a series of outbreaks, including plague.”

Some of the citizens of the central Asian country are even afraid to suggest that the virus may already be in the country.

“My acquaintance who works in a state agency told me that I shouldn’t say that the virus is here or that I heard about it, otherwise I may get into trouble,” said a resident of the capital, Ashgabat, who requested his identity be kept anonymous.

However, Turkmen authorities are discussing with UN officials in the country to work up an action plan towards curbing an outbreak.

Elena Panova, UN resident Co-ordinator has said that the plans in discussion could include country level co-ordination, risk communication, case investigation, laboratory diagnostics among other measures.

When Ms Panova was asked whether the UN agree with the official figures put forward by the country which showed no reported case of the virus, she gave no straight response.

“We are relying on official information because this is what all countries are doing,” she said. “There is no question of trust because that’s the way it works.”

Ms Panova opined that early travel restricting measures might have contributed to lack of confirmed cases.

Simple: shoot the suspects so they’re never confirmed

If our leaders did as most of us suggested we wouldn't have recorded a single case.

This is more of hate than criticism. Same thing goes to the theories that surround China, Russia, North Korea and the rest. Social media causes abuse of information, knowledge and right to freedom of speech.