Swimming is restricted in 36 recreation areas and prohibited in four in Belarus, according to BELTA, citing the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health.

Swimming is restricted in 36 recreation areas and prohibited in four in Belarus, according to BELTA, citing the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health.

Swimming for children is restricted in 17 recreation areas. In the Brest region, these include recreation areas on Lake Mydnyanskoye in the village of Mydno, on Lake Rogoznyanskoye in the settlement of Berestye, Brest district, beaches on the lake in the village of Khmelevo, Zhabinkovsky district, and on Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii Street (Regatta Canal) in Brest. In the Gomel region, the list includes beaches "Tsentralny", "Kaskad-2", "Volotovskoy", "Prudkovsky" in the Tsentralny district and "Zapadny" in the Sovetsky district of Gomel, as well as the beach in Komarin, Bragin district. Restrictions also apply to lakes in the Grodno region: in the village of Oshurki, Shchuchinsky district, and Kan-Beloye in the Grodno district. In Minsk, these are beaches No. 2, 4 of the Zaslavskoye reservoir, No. 1 of the Komsomolskoye Lake reservoir, and in the Minsk region - the Rudnya reservoir in the Slutsk district, and the Sluch River near the 11th town on Sotsialisticheskaya Street in Slutsk.

Swimming for children and adults is restricted in 19 recreation areas. In the Brest region, these include the "Tsentralny" beach in Brest, on the right and left banks of the Mukhavets River, in the village of Porechye on the Yaselda River, KUP "DROTS "Svitanok" on the Pogost reservoir in the village of Vyaz, Pinsk district, OAO "Rybkhhoz Polesye" on the same reservoir. In the Gomel region - the "Kaskad -1" beach in the Tsentralny district of Gomel, in the Grodno region - the lake in Shchuchin. Swimming is also restricted at beaches in Minsk: No. 1, 3, 6 of the Zaslavskoye reservoir, No. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 of the Drozdy reservoir. In the Mogilev region, the list includes the Grebenevskoye reservoir, the beach on the Dnieper River in Mogilev and near the village of Polykovichi, and the pond in the village of Vilchitsy, Mogilev district.

Swimming is prohibited in 4 recreation areas. This applies to the beaches of the city park in Zhabinka, and No. 5, 8, 9 of the Zaslavskoye reservoir in Minsk.

Sanitary and epidemiological service specialists inspected 364 recreation areas from June 28 to July 5. At 41 (11.2%) of them, violations of sanitary norms, rules, and hygienic standards regarding the condition of the territory, container sites and containers for solid municipal waste collection, changing cabins (locker rooms), and public toilets were identified.