Belarus plans to join one of the world's largest grassroots movements for the environment Earth Hour on 26 March 2022, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.   “The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection invites everyone interested to join for Earth Hour 2022: let's switch off our lights for an hour at 20.30 on 26 March,” the press service said. The main goal is to raise awareness...

The laws on the Belarusian People's Congress and civil society should be adopted this year, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko said at the opening of the eighth session of the House of Representatives of the seventh convocation on 15 March, BelTA has learned. “The most important task is to start systematic work on bringing the current legislation in line with the new Constitution. We have two years to adjust about 100...

Demand for medications soared in the last few weeks but has been fully satisfied since then, BelTA learned from Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich. The official agreed that Belarusians can experience fear about shortages of various medications due to Western sanctions. The situation witnessed in the last two weeks may be described as a demand spike without going as far as panic buying. Belarusian drugstores reported a 25% increase in sales in this period. “We've fully...

More than 5.173 million Belarusians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry. Thus, 55.3% of the population of the Republic of Belarus has been fully vaccinated. Over 5.739 million people in Belarus got the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. More than 66,800 teenagers aged 12-17 received one shot of the vaccine, of them over 41,800 completed the vaccination course. Some 61.4% of Belarusians have...

A group of experts on cooperation between the foreign ministries of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) met at the CIS headqua rters in Minsk on 10 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. Taking part in the video conference were representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the CIS Executive Committee. The participants of the meeting finalized and...