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Three months ago, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe (which includes Central Asia) recounted a positive meeting with the president of Turkmenistan. In the tweet on August 7, WHO Europe’s Hans Kluge said that he and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, had expressed their “serious concern” about the rise in COVID-19 negative pneumonia and urged that Ashgabat allow a WHO team to independently sample in the country and take samples to WHO reference labs.
Kluge tweeted on August 7 that Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had “agreed.”
Turkmenistan remains one of the very few countries in the world to have reported not a single case of the novel coronavirus. Turkmen authorities say they have enacted all possible measures to combat the virus, which they maintain has not penetrated into their country.