The Healthcare Ministry has decided to expand the vaccination coverage and include children ages five years and older into the COVID-19 vaccination program, Belarusian Deputy Healthcare Minister, Chief Sanitary Inspector Aleksandr Tarasenko said, has learned. “We have amended our vaccination strategy to cover more age groups. Earlier we vaccinated children ages 12 years and older, however starting from this week we will vaccinate children who are at least five years old. They will...

Belarus is considering easing residence permit rules for citizens of the Baltic states and Poland, learned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. More than 164,000 people have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver program for citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland that was launched in April. The ministry noted an increase in the number of permanent residence permit applications, especially from the foreigners with Belarusian roots. These are people who used to have...

MINSK, 5 August - Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are set to increase the volume of rail container traffic to China. This matter was discussed during the web-based negotiations between the chiefs of the rail administrations of the three countries: Vladimir Morozov (Belarus), Oleg Belozerov (Russia) and Nurlan Sauranbayev (Kazakhstan), learned from the press center of Belarusian Railways. Vladimir Morozov and Oleg Belozerov noted a significant increase in the number of applications...

Four children's rooms for Ukrainian migrant families have opened in Gomel Oblast, learned from the head of the management and personnel department of the Gomel Oblast branch of the Belarus Red Cross Artyom Karpenko. The children's rooms are now available in Novobelitsky District of Gomel, in Mozyr, Kalinkovichi and Rechitsa. The goal of this project is to facilitate adaptation of families with children who were forced to leave their homes and their country. “In such rooms,...

MINSK, 3 August – Work is in progress to devise a set of measures to combat crime and corruption in Belarus in 2023-2025, Head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime at the Prosecutor General's Office Igor Greibo told reporters in Minsk on 3 August, has learned. A program to combat crime and corruption for 2020-2022, approved at the national coordinating meeting in 2019 is currently in force in the country. The program is nearing the end, and the...