There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Turkmenistan. The government has worked to control information about the virus, and experts suspect that it may be spreading in the country unreported. Turkmenistan is a notoriously opaque state, purposefully isolated by an authoritarian regime led by Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who has also been described as totalitarian. Independent media in the country is virtually nonexistent so reporting about the current situation is difficult due to the inability to access and confirm reliable information from the country.