Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

The project of international technical assistance “Vector to the Past. Development of Traditional Culture as a Tourist Capacity Building Driver” has kick off in Malorita District, Belarus, BelTA learned from the Malorita District Executive Committee.

It is important that all periods of history are presented truthfully, Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko told the media following a government session to discuss Belarus' historical policy on 6 January, BelTA has learned.

The new Constitution will become the basis for the further development of the country, member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Kalina Kaputskaya told BelTA.

More than 4.862 million people in Belarus have got the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, of them over 3.747 million have been fully vaccinated, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry.

Refugees, especially families with children, hoped that they would celebrate the New Year not on the border, but in more comfortable conditions, in the EU countries, one of the refugees staying in a temporary accommodation facility near the Belarus-Poland border told BelTA.

The first baby of 2022 in Vitebsk Oblast was born to the family of Maria and Semyon Vradiy in Vitebsk city clinical maternity hospital No. 2 on 1 January. The baby boy Aleksandr weighed 3,860g.

Belarus confirmed 1,510 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours; another 1,777 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

Belarus is entering the New Year as a country that successfully dealt with another set of challenges, Secretary General of the Belarus Red Cross Dmitry Shevtsov told the ONT TV channel, BelTA informs.

Over 3.6 million people in Belarus have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry.

A welfare state is about taking care of all Belarusians, Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR), said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned.