“One of the good examples of interaction is that today, by decision of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, a decision was made to send ten thousand diagnostic systems,” RIA Novosti quoted Mezentsev as saying.

He explained that this is "diagnostic material that will ensure the conduct of nearly ten thousand studies."

He added that refrigerators with this cargo left Moscow on April 3 and should arrive in Minsk on April 4 after lunch.

Earlier it was reported that in Belarus the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection increased to 254, four of the patients died.