This country claims it hasn't had a single Covid-19 case. Activists say that's a lie
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Turkmenistan is one of just five nations that have not reported any coronavirus cases -- but activists say there's evidence the country is battling a deadly third wave and President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is playing down the threat to maintain his image.
Or at least, that's what the central Asian country's secretive, authoritarian government claims.
Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic home to nearly 6 million people, is one of at least five countries that have not reported any coronavirus cases, according to a review of data collected by Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization. Three of those are isolated islands in the Pacific and the fourth is North Korea, a tightly-controlled hermit state.
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