“We plan in the government to decide to open stores on Thursday with work clothes, shoes, textiles, prams and baby seats, stationery, hobby markets and shoe repair shops,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

It is specified that the final decision on this will be made on April 8 based on operational statistics on the development of the situation with coronavirus diseases.

Earlier, the Czech Republic received 5 million masks from China to combat COVID-19.