Over the past 24 hours, Belarusian medics provided medical care to 15 refugees in the border area near the Bruzgi checkpoint, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry. Last night, four people, including one child, turned to a emergency medical assistance team which is on standby in the logistics center. The one-year baby was diagnosed with acute gastroenteritis and admitted together with the mother in the children's regional hospital. Doctors stabilized his...

A solemn ceremony to launch the 14th Belarusian Antarctic expedition took place in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), the NASB press service told BelTA. A total of 11 people led by irreplaceable Aleksei Gaidashov will travel to Antarctica this year. The expedition includes scientific personnel from institutions of the National Academy of Sciences (the national center for polar research, the Physics Institute, the United Informatics Institute, the applied science center...

Belarus will continue work on lowering barriers standing in the way of investments. Belarusian Economy Minister Aleksandr Chervyakov talked about directions of the country's social and economic development for a period of five years, about the investment climate and ways to further improve it, and about the development of the regions at a national seminar, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Chervyakov said: “The first year of the current five-year term is nearing its end. It was an...

More than 30% of people living in Belarus have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told reporters, BelTA has learned. The first dose of the vaccine has already been administered to 3.12 million people. “As to healthcare and education specialists, social workers and those who come in contact with many people, the vaccination rate in these population groups is 70-80%,” Dmitry Pinevich said. According to him, this is bearing...

In January-September 2021 Belarus' export of merchandise and services rose by 32.3% year-on-year up to $34.919 billion, BelTA learned from the website of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB). In January-September 2021 Belarus' foreign trade totaled $67.1 billion, up by 31% year-on-year. Import amounted to $32.181 billion (up by 29.6%). Surplus of foreign trade in goods and services equaled $2.738 billion, up from $1.566 billion in January-September 2020....