More than 1,200 haulers were queuing in Belarus to cross the border with the European Union as of 8.00 on 22 October, BelTA learned from the website of the State Border Committee. Over 200 trucks were queuing at the Belarus-Latvia border at the Grigorovshchina checkpoint and more than 250 at Urbany. More than 150 heavy-duty trucks were waiting to cross the border with Lithuania at the Vidzy checkpoint, 70 at Kotlovka, more than 260 at Kamenny Log, over 140 at Benyakoni, and over 170 at...

The immunization drive is gaining momentum in Belarus, First Deputy Healthcare Minister Yelena Bogdan told reporters, BelTA has learned.   “Vaccination is gathering speed. This is very encouraging. In some regions nearly 35% of the population (children included) has already got a vaccine shot. There are polyclinics in Minsk and the regions that vaccinated more than 50% of the older population and people with chronic diseases. Today, vaccination is our number one task,” Yelena...

Moscow will host the permanent seminar on the development of the Union State of Belarus and Russia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia on 27-28 October. It will look into the application of waste management laws in Belarus and Russia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Parliamentary Assembly. The event will be attended by members of the commission on ecology, environmental management and response of the Parliamentary Assembly, representatives of...

A delegation of Belarusian customs officers headed by Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee Eduard Danilovich took part in the meeting of the CIS Committee of Heads of Law Enforcement Units of the Heads of Customs Services Council in Tashkent, BelTA learnt from the State Customs Committee of Belarus. The meeting participants approved the action plan of the committee's strategy till 2030 and the roadmap of the regional law enforcement liaison office of the World Customs...

Belarus confirmed 1,981 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours on 17 October; another 2,173 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry. The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 571,987. A total of 545,245 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus. As many as 4,402 COVID-19 patients have died since the infection outbreak in Belarus. All in all, Belarus performed...

The whole world has come to realize that Belarus' COVID-19 response strategy was right, Lyudmila Makarina-Kibak, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Health, Physical Education, Family and Youth Policy of the House of Representatives of Belarus, told reporters, BelTA has learned. “Our strategy during the first wave relied on the capacity of our healthcare system. We had a sufficient number of beds in infectious diseases units, enough oxygen points, trained specialists and...