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Vaccinations are an important tool to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, Belarus' Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko told reporters as he visited Minsk Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital on 4 October, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko presented state awards to more than 50 employees of the education system in an official ceremony in the Palace of the Republic in Minsk on 30 September, BelTA has learned.

The international agribusiness expo AgroExpo has opened in the Ukrainian city of Kropivnitsky. Belarusian manufacturers of agricultural machines, fertilizers, crop protection agents took part in the expo, the Belarusian embassy in Ukraine told BelTA.

Resorting passenger traffic in the Eurasian Economic Union to the pre-Covid level is one of the priorities, official representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission Iya Malkina told a briefing for the press in Moscow on 29 September, BelTA has learned.

Minsk will host the international scientific conference "Development prospects for the modern tourism industry: World trends and regional contexts" on 28 September, director of the Belarusian National Tourism Agency Pavel Sapotko told a press conference in Minsk on 27 September, BelTA has learned.

A Mi-26 helicopter carrying rescue workers landed at the Lipki airfield. The helicopter of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry came from Turkey where it was fighting forest fires in mountainous areas, BelTA learned from the ministry's website.