Berezino regional executive committee

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Belarus' long-term and short-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer default rating at 'B' with a stable outlook. Belarus Eurobond rating has also been affirmed at ‘B', BelTA learned from the Finance Ministry.

In order to process samples taken from people and to identify those infected with the coronavirus COVID-19, a virology laboratory was opened in the Soligorsk Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology, Mlyn By reports.

The Belarusian government has adopted the program “Strengthening the capacities to detect, counteract and stop illegal turnover of radioactive materials”. This is set forth in the Council of Ministers' Resolution No.281 of 13 May 2020, BelTA learned from the press service of the government.

Belarus proposes to take measures in the CIS to protect the health of people amid the coronavirus and to maintain the stability of the economy, similar to the way it has been done in the Eurasian Economic Union, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said as he addressed the the CIS Ministerial Council video conference, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On April 25, in the area of the Health Path in Soligorsk, the official opening of the ski-roller track took place, the newspaper Shakhtser writes.

New socially significant objects are constantly appearing in Minsk Oblast, Belarus 1 reports.

On May 5, Slutsk joined the patriotic relay race. A tribute was given in the memorial complex on 14 Partizan St., Belarus 1 reports.

These days vegetables are planted in the fields of the Central region: cabbage, carrots, onions. Most of them are varieties of Belarusian selection. They are being worked on at the Institute of Vegetable Production near Minsk. Plants exotic for our country are also grown there, Belarus 1 reports.

Minsk Oblast Executive Committee announces the acceptance of applications from business entities of Minsk Oblast to participate in the next competitive selection of innovative projects (works) for their financing at the expense of the innovative fund of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee in 2020 - 2021.

Forestry institutions of the country ahead of schedule fulfilled the annual plan for sowing and planting forests. Since the beginning of the year, 33,492 ha of forest crops have been created instead of the planned 32,335 ha, the press service of the Ministry of Forestry reports.