{"id":13908,"date":"2021-01-26T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=154595"},"modified":"2021-01-26T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:19:20","slug":"president-declares-tajikistan-coronavirus-free-despite-ministry-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/26\/president-declares-tajikistan-coronavirus-free-despite-ministry-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"President Declares Tajikistan Coronavirus-Free Despite Ministry Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cadfc40b-8545-4dbe-8921-4d9bc116a554_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>DUSHANBE &#8212; Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has declared the country coronavirus-free, claiming there have been no new cases this month.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmon made the claim in a January 26 address to parliament even though the Health Ministry said earlier this month that several new cases were registered in the Central Asian country since the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tajikistan today is without COVID-19,&#8221; Rahmon said, adding that the &#8220;absence of coronavirus&#8221; within Tajikistan&#8217;s borders did not mean that citizens can now neglect regulations such as wearing masks and social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that individuals arriving in Tajikistan from other countries must be placed in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Tajik authorities have said that mosques in the country will reopen as of February 1 as long as they meet sanitary requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Many in Tajikistan have questioned the need to keep the regulations in place, since they aren&#8217;t being adhered to or enforced in areas such as markets and on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The number of registered coronavirus cases in Tajikistan is 13,308, with 90 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>However, an investigative report by RFE\/RL last summer revealed that the <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/tajikistan-official-coronavirus-stats-don-t-reflect-reality-rfe-rl-investigation-finds\/30692651.html\">actual number of lethal cases of COVID-19 in the country might be several times higher<\/a><\/strong>, including dozens of physicians and nurses who treated COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/26\/president-declares-tajikistan-coronavirus-free-despite-ministry-claims\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUSHANBE \u2014 Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has declared the country coronavirus-free, claiming there have been no new cases this month. Rahmon made the claim in a January 26\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,163,106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13909,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13908\/revisions\/13909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}