It is essential to ensure the normal operation of the transport industry in spite of sanctions, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard out a report of Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivak and Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Avramenko on 16 August, BelTA has learned.

Belarus confirmed 1,425 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours; another 1,426 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

Belarus confirmed 1,175 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours; another 1,350 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

Belarusian scientists have determined the strategy for the domestic coronavirus vaccine, Director of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Vladimir Gorbunov told reporters, BelTA has learned.

The state border protection system meets today's requirements. State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich made the statement after the second stage of a tactical exercise involving military personnel of the Western Operational Command ended in the exercise area Gozhsky, BelTA has learned.

The plans were to make Belarus and Ukraine members of NATO, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei in the fourth episode of the documentaries titled as Belarus Against Color Revolution aired by the Belarusian TV channel STV, BelTA has learned.