coronavirus

Another COVID record in Belarus with almost 5K new cases per day
This is a new record
03.02.2022
‘You had time to run with flags, and I don't have time for you now’. How COVID-19 patients are treated in Belarusian detention centres
Last week it became known that 53-year-old Alena Amelina from Minsk had died as a result of the covid complications after serving an administrative arrest in the remand prison in Akrestsin Street. The woman became infected there. But how numerous such cases are in reality, is actually unknown.
25.10.2021
Face mask mandate lifted in Belarus in wake of Lukashenka’s lash
The face mask requirement lasted only 13 days in Belarus: it has been lifted on the back of Lukashenka’s recently blasting new anti-covid restrictions.
22.10.2021
Delta virus: New schemes and stats fraud
Pricey medicine, secret victims, nepotism. Belarus fight against Coronavirus
07.10.2021
Political prisoner’s father dies. Family urges authorities to let Pavel Sevyarynets say last goodbye
Kastus Sevyarynets died in hospital on Friday morning, his daughter, Belarusian educator Hanna Sevyarynets, said on Facebook.
01.10.2021
Politician Ryhor Kastusiou gets COVID-19, has other health issues in KGB jail
Ihar Barysau, chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada), received a letter from Ryhor Kastusiou, the imprisoned leader of the Belarusian People’s Front party. The photo of the letter was published by RFE/RL.
21.09.2021
Belarusian government eases border restrictions
It can only be done once every three months
04.09.2021
First patient with Delta coronavirus strain dies in Kyiv
The man had returned with an infection from Russia as part of a group of four people.
28.07.2021
Sputnik Lite vaccine to reach Belarus in July
Another variety of Russian vaccine against coronavirus will appear in Belarus
28.06.2021
No need for compulsory vaccination, says Lukashenka
There will be no Belarusian vaccine this year either
20.06.2021