Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday evening his government is working on a detailed plan to ease coronavirus restrictions, but warned that weekend lockdowns would most likely continue until after the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in May, news wires reported.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NATO-led KFOR continues to operate in Kosovo and also provides assistance to local institutions, the mission said. In the past days, KFOR has donated personal protection equipment worth €70,000 to the hospitals of Pristina and Gracanica.

Turkey has detained 402 people in the past 42 days for allegedly sharing “false and provocative” social media postings concerning the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Monday. An Interior Ministry statement, quoted by AP, said officials have inspected more than 6,000 social media accounts and the 402 suspects were among a total of 855 account-holders sought by authorities for sharing posts deemed to be “provocative.”

Turkey lifted a four-day curfew as of midnight Sunday which had been imposed in 31 provinces to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. "Our citizens in 31 provinces obeyed the curfew by and large staying at their homes,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The Greek government is holding successive meetings and discussions over the weekend to finalise a plan for the gradual lifting of the measures put in place to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

Albania and Greece, whose borders are closed because of the coronavirus outbreak, agreed to work on paving the way to allow Albanian seasonal agriculture workers to go to Greece from mid-May, Albania's PM Edi Rama, announced.

Turkey enters four-day lockdown today, which will last until next Monday as part of efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The dates coincide with a national holiday on 23 April and the beginning of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan on Friday, with the curfew on the first two days set to allow local grocers and markets to open for citizens, while the food delivery services of restaurants will also be allowed, according to a circular issued by the Interior Ministry.

Greece on Tuesday condemned Turkey’s announced intention to continue drilling inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), saying it ignores calls by the international community to respect international law, news wires reported.

Starting from 21 April, Serbia will ease some of the restrictions imposed to battle the coronavirus, President Alexander Vucic told TV Pink in a long interview. The first step is to shorten the curfew, which will be on from 6 pm to 5 am. At the same time elder people, who were generally not allowed to go out, will be able to make a short walk of up to 30 minutes every day between 6 pm and 1 am.

The Orthodox world celebrates today Easter amid a series of restrictions and bans that left churches empty and forced most of the devotees to stop short of visiting holy places. Church and state officials in most Orthodox countries urged or banned people from attending services, fearing this would lead to a spike in coronavirus infections. The bans, however, differed from country to country.