Story By: Gheorghi Caraseni, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash
This Russian MP claims his region is being kept safe from coronavirus by a mummified princess local residents worship.
Erzhanat Begenov, Deputy of the Republic of Altai Krai in southern Russia, says the region is being protected from the COVID-19 pandemic by a mummy of a princess which was found on the Ukok plateau in 1993. The Republic currently remains the only Russian region where no coronavirus cases have been reported.
The official said: “We have a defence. The Altai people hold her in very high esteem. When it was taken to Novosibirsk from us, there was an earthquake, they say, everything was connected with it, they should not have touched it.”
Begenov was referring to an earthquake which hit the Altai Krai region in 2003 shortly after the mummy had been taken to a museum in the city of Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia.
Many local residents believe the earthquake struck because the mummy had been taken from its native area and soon after the earthquake the mummy was returned to the Altai Krai region.
The mummified woman reportedly lived over 2,000 years ago and is named the Ukok princess after the plateau where it was found. Local media report some local residents worship the mummy.
According to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University, Russia has registered 47,121 cases of COVID-19 and 405 deaths.
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