Belarusian President has confirmed that he overcame coronavirus “on his feet” and was asymptomatic, he said Tuesday when visiting a military base of the Interior Ministry’s internal troops in Minsk.

“As I said, 97% of the population are asymptomatic after contracting the virus. Thank God, I managed to be among the ranks of those asymptomatic. I finally managed to get into this golden fund of Belarus, by overcoming this virus”, - said Alexander Lukashenko.

He added that the leadership and military personnel of the national security system “are meeting a person who managed to overcome coronavirus on his feet”: “That’s what doctors said yesterday. I was asymptomatic”.

Belarus has identified more than 67,000 coronavirus cases.