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Belarus win eight medals at 2021 FIG World Cup in Uzbekistan
Alina Harnasko won gold in the Ribbon routine (22,750 points). Italy’s Sofia Raffaeli took silver with the total of 22,100 points. Russia’s Dina Averina claimed bronze (21,500 points)...

Belarus reports 1,516 new COVID-19 cases, 1,489 recoveries in past 24 hours
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 341,539 cases...

Belarus' COVID-19 update: 1,222 new cases, 1,348 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 340,023 cases...

Works by BelTA’s photographer on display in Hermitage
Oksana Manchuk has presented eight works depicting the Student Village in Minsk. She worked on the project for one and a half years under the guidance of famous Russian photographer Yuri Kozyrev. "The project is called Babylon"...

Belarus reports 1,166 new COVID-19 cases, 1,287 recoveries in past 24 hours
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 338,801 cases...

Vitebsk to host Estonian art exhibition
The exhibition will feature the works (watercolor, gouache, collage, printed graphics) by Estonian artists Pusa (Piret Bergmann), Viive Noor, Alexey Kornilov and Juri Mildeberg...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 754 new cases, 761 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 337,635 cases...

Belarus' Brest plans to host cross triathlon, half marathon events in summer
The cross biathlon event in Brest is scheduled for 3 July. Participants will be offered to swim 500m in open water, to ride 10km on a bicycle over rough terrain and to finish with a 3km run. The section of Mukhavets near the lifeguard station, as well as the coast of the river have been chosen as the location for the event...

Belarus reports 843 new COVID-19 cases, 600 recoveries in past 24 hours
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 336,881 cases...

Arman-Marshall Silla wins gold at 2021 European Taekwondo Championships
Arman-Marshall Silla beat Russia’s Vladislav Larin in the final...

Belarus 2nd in mixed relay at UIPM 2021 Pentathlon World Cup in Sofia
The Belarusian duo scored a total of 1,440 points to finish just behind Kazakhstan duo of Vladislav Mishchenko and Yelena Potapenko (1,442 points)...

Belarus’ COVID-19 update: 1,175 new cases, 1,379 recoveries
All in all, Belarus performed 5,553,937 tests, including 18,537 tests in the past 24 hours...

Belarusian student among prize-winners at Huawei Cup 2020
Daniil Dengalev, a second-year student of the BSU Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, placed third in the Code category of Huawei Cup 2020, the participants of which had three hours to solve four problems...

Belarus home to about 9.35m people as of early 2021
The urban population in Belarus stood at 7,291,709 people in early 2019, 7,303,905 in early 2020, and 7,280,320 in early 2021...

Belarus’ COVID-19 update: 1,622 new cases, 1,525 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 333,430 cases...

Some 92,000 Belarusians get first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
As of 26 March, around 40,000 Belarusians had received the first dose of the vaccine and 26,000 had already got both shots. By now, the first dose of the vaccine has already been administered to 92,000 Belarusians...

Darya Naumava wins European Weightlifting Championships bronze
The Belarusian scored 108kg in the snatch and 132 kg in the clean and jerk to combine a total of 240 kg...

Ilya Ivashka advances at ATP Challenger in Marbella
In the round of Last 16 the Belarusian secured a solid win, 6-1, 6-3, over Spain’s world number 56 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in an hour and 15 minutes...

Belarus reports 1,272 new COVID-19 cases, 1,379 recoveries in past 24 hours
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 331,808 cases...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 1,278 new cases, 1,243 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 330,536 cases...