The number of COVID-19 cases in most regions of Belarus is now lower than during the previous wave, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told reporters, BelTA has learned. “We are gradually overcoming this wave. We get updates every morning, we communicate directly with the regions. We have only two regions - Minsk Oblast and the city Minsk - where the number of cases is higher than in the previous wave,” Dmitry Pinevich said. He added that other regions have fewer cases compared with...

About 30,000 biometric passports and ID cards have been issued in Belarus over the course of two months, BelTA learned from an interview with Head of the Citizenship and Migration Department of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry, Police Colonel Aleksei Begun. The interview is published on the ministry's website. According to the source, about 30,000 biometric passports and ID cards have been issued to Belarusian citizens and foreigners, who permanently live in Belarus, in the two...

The number of hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients has dropped by 10% in some regions of Belarus, Head of the Main Healthcare Delivery Department of the Healthcare Ministry of Belarus Aleksei Shcherbinsky told reporters, BelTA has learned. “As for the overall downward trend, I want to say that it would be premature to draw conclusions in the country as a whole, nevertheless, the pandemic vector begins to change. In general, the past 7-9 days saw a decrease in the number of...

More than 2.882 million people in Belarus have got the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, of them over 2.214 million have been fully vaccinated, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry. The press service recalled that the map of vaccination sites is available on the official website of the Healthcare Ministry. Vaccinations are administered at polyclinics, hospitals and national research centers, malls, first-aid points of factories and enterprises, social services...

Belarusian universities perform well in international rankings, Head of the Main Department for Vocational Training of the Education Ministry of Belarus Sergei Kasperovich told reporters on 25 October, BelTA has learned. “As far as higher learning is concerned, Belarusian universities perform pretty well, in particular, the leader of the Belarusian higher education - Belarusian State University - that is celebrating its 100th anniversary these days. This university holds consistently...

We aim to inoculate at least 60% of the population against COVID-19, Belarusian First Deputy Healthcare Minister Yelena Bogdan said in an interview with the ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned. "People have heeded our calls and actively joined the vaccination campaign. Pregnant women and nursing mothers also get vaccinated. Some regions are already approaching the mark of 35%. We have set ourselves an intermediate goal of 40%, as originally recommended by the WHO, but we aim to cover at...