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Turkmenistan bans the word coronavirus | RSF

By Thomas A. Smith

By banishing the word coronavirus from the Turkmen vocabulary in a radical move to suppress all information about the pandemic, Turkmenistan s government is putting its citizens in danger, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.

The state-controlled media are no longer allowed to use the word and it has even been removed from health information brochures distributed in schools, hospitals and workplaces, according to Turkmenistan Chronicle, one of the few sources of independent news, whose site is blocked within the country.

via rsf.org

That’s another approach I suppose. H/t LGS.