MINSK, 16 March (BelTA) – Russia has announced a decision to shut down its border with Belarus to suspend the movement of people, Russian Premier Mikhail Mishustin said, TASS reports.
“We have taken a decision to suspend the movement of people across the border with Belarus. We have taken a number of other preventive steps as well. We will keep doing everything to protect our country from this novel threat, to get ahead of the epidemic and take exhaustive measures to contain the spread of coronavirus,” Mikhail Mishustin said.