China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday attended the national mourning period for martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak and compatriots who died of the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

With the current favorable weather conditions we need to accelerate the spring sowing campaign, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during his working visit to Smolevichi District, Minsk Oblast on 3 April, BelTA has learned.

Laws should be effective and the society should be able to understand them, BelTA learned from Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova during the opening of the spring session of the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament on 2 April.

Belarus is calling on Lithuania to regain composure and to engage in efficient cooperation in fighting the spread of coronavirus, reads a statement released by Anatoly Glaz, Head of the Information and Digital Diplomacy Office, Press Secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Belarusian sanitary epidemiological service enables the country to fight against the coronavirus infection COVID-19 efficiently, WHO Special Envoy for EU and former USSR countries Vytenis Andriukaitis said in an interview to Lenta.ru.