Humanitarian cooperation

China sends 100,000 coronavirus vaccines to Belarus
The vaccine produced by Sinopharm is the first vaccine approved in China to enter the market by the State Pharmaceutical Administration of the People's Republic of China and is already actively used within the country...

Danish Red Cross donates over 1.32m face masks to Belarus
The Danish Red Cross has donated over 1.32 million face masks to the Belarusian Red Cross for use by their staff, volunteers and aid recipients. The spread of COVID-19 has been a major challenge to the entire international community. It has shown how important mutual assistance is in dealing with humanitarian crises...

Review of humanitarian activities in 2020
In 2020, Belarus amended the law on foreign gratuitous aid...

Austrian partners hand over €5,000 certificate to hospital in Belarusian Korma
The money will be used to improve the physical infrastructure of the healthcare institution. According to Tamara Bisyukova, Acting Chief Physician of the Korma Central District Hospital, they will buy an oxygen supply unit, air recirculators, remote-sensing thermometers, movable bactericidal lamps, and personal protective equipment...

Batch of Russian COVID-19 test systems delivered to Belarus
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev stressed that the aid provided to the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry represented another step that reaffirmed special relations between the two countries. “It is support for the huge work Belarus is doing to fight COVID-19,” he said...

U.S. European Command donates blood gas analyzer to Belarus’ military medical center
The equipment measures the changes in blood gas concentration and helps make prompt decisions about patients’ treatment...

Japan grants Belarus about $108,000 to buy medical equipment
This year, Japan and Belarus intend to sign contracts for offering grants for projects not only in healthcare, but also in social services, Ambassador of Japan to Belarus Hiroki Tokunaga noted at the signing ceremony...

WHO delivers COVID-19 diagnostics and treatment equipment to Belarus
The $257,000 worth of equipment from the world's leading manufacturers was delivered under the project “Supporting WHO's preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic”, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The equipment meets all the WHO requirements...

Republic of Korea donates 33 bactericidal air recirculators to Belarus’ care homes
Air purifiers that can remove pathogenic bacteria, infection and dust will be given to Belarusian residential care facilities in the city of Minsk, Brest Oblast and Minsk Oblast. The total amount of aid is about Br25,000...

Belarus to implement technical assistance project to improve emergency response
“We would like to thank our colleagues from Latvia and Lithuania for their support in the organization and implementation of the project. This will help us gain the necessary experience in emergency response and, of course, enhance cross-border cooperation with our colleagues and friends. The project also provides for holding cross-border drills”...