Turkmenistan, Which Says It Has No Covid-19, Allows WHO Visit
- WHO team is traveling to central Asian nation, Kluge says
- Neighbors Iran, Kazakhstan have struggled to contain virus
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Turkmenistan is allowing a Covid-19 team from the World Health Organization to visit after months of planning even as the reclusive dictatorship maintains it has no coronavirus cases.
The group includes officials from Germany’s Robert Koch Institute, Hans Kluge, regional director at WHO Europe, said on Twitter on Monday, showing them boarding a Turkmenistan plane. In April, he said a WHO team would travel to the Caspian Sea nation “in the coming days.”