Press releases

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,905 new cases, 1,916 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 617,719...

Belarusians improve positions in WTA
Belarus’ best tennis players retained their positions in the WTA: Aryna Sabalenka is second with 6,130 points, Victoria Azarenka is 27th with 2,166 points...

Shymanovich wins second gold at 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships
The Belarusian clocked 25.25 seconds to win the Men’s 50m Breaststroke. Ilya Shymanovich repeated the world record set by Cameron van der Burgh of the South Africa in November 2009...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,991 new cases, 2,245 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 610,022...

Shymanovich wins silver at 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Nicolo Martinenghi of Italy won the event in 55.63. Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands took bronze in 55.79. The Belarusian clocked the best time of 55.45 in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke qualification, setting a European record and improving the time he clocked in Glasgow 2019...

Belarus’ Yauheni Karmilchyk clinches World Boxing Championships bronze
The Belarusian lost in the semifinal to Kazakhstan’s Temirtas Zhussupov in the 48kg event...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,998 new cases, 2,444 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 608,031...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,996 new cases, 2,543 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 606,033...

Listapad film festival unveils 2021 slogan
Vladimir Karachevsky said. “We declare that Belarus is open for cooperation. Culture helps to establish contacts. We hope that cinema will provide a bridge for human souls, will unite people from all over the world in the desire to save our planet and will give an opportunity to think about what we can lose if we persist in destroying relationships"...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,979 new cases, 1,927 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 604,037...

Silver for Belarus at Kunzelsau Wurth Cup 2021
Darya Andreyeva defeated Carina Schmidt of Germany 15-2 in the opener. Then she saw off three more German athletes: Laura Ziob 15-12, Ylvi Schillinger 15-9, and Ann-Sophie Kindler 15-10...

Over 2.21m Belarusians fully vaccinated against COVID-19
Vaccinations are administered at polyclinics, hospitals and national research centers, malls, first-aid points of factories and enterprises, social services centers and in the metro...

Ivashka wins Paris Masters opener
Belarus’ world number 46 Ilya Ivashka beat Spain’s world number 44 Albert Ramos 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) in the 2021 Paris Masters opener on 1 November...

Belarus’ COVID-19 update: 1,890 new cases, 1,561 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 602,058...

Belarus 4th in 5 Balls event at 2021 Rhythmic World Championships
Hanna Haidukevich, Anastasiya Malakanava, Anastasiya Rybakova, Arina Tsitsilina and Karyna Yarmolenka scored a total of 44,100 points...

Belarus’ Viktoriia Safonova wins Denis Ten Memorial Challenge
The Belarusian scored a total of 190.06 points in the women’s event...

Harnasko wins silver at 2021 Rhythmic World Championships
In the final the Belarusian scored a total of 105,300 points...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,985 new cases, 2,648 recoveries
All in all, Belarus performed 9,631,444 tests, including 37,694 tests in the past 24 hours...

Sabalenka, Azarenka retain their positions in WTA rankings
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus has remained second in the recently published WTA rankings...

Over 2.17m Belarusians fully vaccinated against COVID-19
The regional breakdown of people who got the second shot is as follows: Brest Oblast (over 267,700), Vitebsk Oblast (over 228,800), Gomel Oblast (over 398,400), Grodno Oblast (over 258,100), Minsk (over 440,300), Minsk Oblast (over 263,400), Mogilev Oblast (over 264,700)...