Coronavirus pandemic in Belarus: many times more cases than in the official statistics

In the report for April-May 2020, based on the available data, I concluded that with a mortality rate from coronavirus as in neighbouring Poland Belarus would have nine times more deaths from coronavirus than official statistics indicate. In neighbouring Poland, the mortality rate is 5% of all confirmed cases of coronavirus (in the United States, 5.9%, in Austria, 3.9%).

If we assume the same mortality rate from coronavirus in Belarus (5%), then, based on official data as of May 21 (33,371 cases of coronavirus), the number of deaths would have been more than 1,665. According to official data, the number of deaths was 185, nine times less.

Lukashenko said that not a single person has died of the coronavirus in Belarus. He stated that good