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Belarus to hold annual military parade despite coronavirus crisis | World news

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
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Belarus will maintain a army parade this week to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany, its president has stated, regardless of having one of many worst coronavirus outbreaks in Europe.

Alexander Lukashenko stated in televised remarks that he didn’t need to cancel the parade partially as a result of folks “would say we have been scared”.

Russia and different former Soviet nations have cancelled this week’s commemoration to sluggish the unfold of the virus. Final month, greater than 10,000 Russian troopers who took half in rehearsals were quarantined.

UK information from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics has revealed that males are virtually twice as prone to die from the illness as ladies. The development was first seen in China, the place one analysis discovered a fatality fee of two.8% in males in contrast with 1.7% in ladies. Since then, the sample has been mirrored in France, Germany, Iran, South Korea and Italy, the place males have accounted for 71% of deaths.

So why are males extra weak?

“The trustworthy reply is none of us know what’s inflicting the distinction,” stated Prof Sarah Hawkes, director of the UCL Centre for Gender and World Well being.

Early on, smoking was advised as a possible clarification. In China, practically 50% of males however solely about 2% of girls smoke, and so underlying variations in lung well being have been assumed to contribute to the distinction. Smoking may additionally act as an avenue for getting contaminated within the first place: people who smoke contact their lips extra and should share contaminated cigarettes.

Behavioural elements that differ throughout genders may have a job. Some research have proven that males are less likely to wash their hands, less likely to use soap, much less prone to search medical care and extra prone to ignore public well being recommendation. These are sweeping generalisations, however throughout a inhabitants might place males at higher danger.

Nonetheless, there’s a rising perception amongst consultants that extra basic organic elements are additionally at play. Whereas there are greater proportions of male people who smoke in lots of nations, the variations are nowhere close to as excessive as in China. However males proceed to be overrepresented in Covid-19 statistics.

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Belarus has virtually 17,500 confirmed instances of coronavirus, giving it one in all Europe’s highest per capita an infection charges. Lukashenko, president since 1994, has publicly stated the hazard from the illness was exaggerated and averted instituting bodily distancing pointers.

The nation has continued to carry soccer matches and saved its church buildings open for Easter companies, regardless of closures all through the remainder of Europe. Volunteers have helped crowdfund crucial PPE as hospital employees have been informed to do with out. 100 and three folks have died of the illness within the nation.

Talking concerning the parade, Lukashenko stated it shouldn’t be cancelled as a result of it was “an emotional and a profoundly ideological factor”.

“We should always do not forget that a few of these folks [who fought in the second world war] may need died of viruses or different illnesses, however didn’t at all times really feel that, they usually died for us, irrespective of how pompous this may sound,” Lukashenko stated within the remarks, which have been translated by the Interfax information service.


“And simply suppose what folks would say. Maybe they might say it, not instantly, however a day or two days later – however they might say we have been scared.”

On Monday, Lukashenko additionally stated he deliberate to carry presidential elections earlier than August. “Now we have no grounds to delay this election, we can’t try this by structure,” he stated.

— to www.theguardian.com

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