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During the pandemic, volunteers of Vitebsk regional organization of the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCC) provided more than 11.000 services to the population, said the head of the regional organization Galina Zhelanova. During the pandemic, caring for the elderly has become a priority for Red Cross workers and volunteers.

According to Viktor Shebalov, head of the livestock production and sectoral construction department of the committee on agriculture and food of the Oblast Executive Committee, gross milk production amounted to 740.900 tons (growth rate by 2019 - 103.4%) with an average milk yield per cow of 4030 kg.

Employees of the forestry enterprises of Vitebsk State Forestry Enterprise will complete preparations for the fire hazardous season by March 1, said Vladimir Konkov, head of the department for forest protection and protection, hunting and hunting tourism of Vitebsk State Forestry Enterprise.

Agriculture will become the most important priority of the social and economic development of Vitebsk Oblast in the future until 2025, the current five-year plan will become a nationwide construction project in the agro-industrial complex.

By the end of 2020, the number of cybercrimes in Vitebsk Oblast increased 2.7 times, but the number of grave and especially grave crimes decreased by 12.5%.

At Belarusian championship in biathlon among boys and girls, which took place on the basis of Raubichi sports complex near Minsk, the team of Vitebsk Oblast took the first place. Athletes from Dvina region won 18 medals (of which six were gold), with 14 awards in the assets of the representatives of the weak half.