Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, who said that the coronavirus was nothing more than “psychosis” and that vodka would cure it, announced Tuesday that he had contracted and recovered from COVID-19 without suffering symptoms. He has refused to impose a lockdown on his country, breaking with many other European nations that have implemented them, and has promoted unproven home remedies. “The most surprising thing is that today you are seeing a person who managed to power through coronavirus standing on his feet,” Lukashenko told state-run media agency Belta. “Doctors made this conclusion yesterday—it was asymptomatic.” Lukashenko previously called the virus as nothing more than mass “psychosis” and said that a trip to a sauna or a drink of vodka would “poison the virus.”
