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Some 48.5% of Belarusians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Alla Dashkevich, head of the epidemiology department of the National Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, told reporters in Minsk on 3 February, BelTA has learned.

Scientists and the State Control Committee of Belarus have established that the construction of fencing on Poland's border with Belarus will cause irreparable damage to Belovezhskaya Pushcha, BelTA has learned.

Work to set up polling stations for the national referendum on constitutional amendments is nearing completion, Chairman of the Belarusian Central Election Commission Igor Karpenko told BelTA.

Belarus has a high level of nuclear instrumentation, Aleksandr Lobko, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, said during the round table “University Science Today: Priority Areas of Development” hosted by the BelTA press center.

The coronavirus will not go away. It will become a classical seasonal virus that Belarusians always have to deal with in spring and autumn. Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich made the statement on the air of the Belarusian TV channel STV, BelTA has learned.

The fifth meeting of the expert group on the establishment of the Human Rights Commission of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held via videoconference on 27 January, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.