Swimming is restricted in 44 recreational water areas in Belarus. This information is posted on the website of the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, as reported by BELTA.
Swimming is restricted in 44 recreational water areas in Belarus. This information is posted on the website of the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, as reported by BELTA.
Swimming for children and adults is restricted in 32 recreational areas. In the Brest region, this applies to the Bohonovo pond in Luninets, Motolskoye Lake in the Ivanovo district, the city beach on the Mukhavets River in Zhabinka, and the lake in the village of Khmelevo in the Zhabinka district. In the Gomel region, it concerns the Pripyat River up to the Merlyavitsa channel in Mozyr. In the Grodno region, it concerns the pond on Nezavisimosti Avenue in Slonim and the "Yubileynoye Lake" recreational area in Grodno. In the Vitebsk region, it concerns recreational areas on the Dnieper River on Pravoberezhnaya Street in Dubrovno, on Korotkevich Street and Semenov Street in Orsha, and the recreational area on the Dnieper River of the educational institution "Luhovtsy Health Camp".
In the Minsk region, the list includes the beach on the Sluch River in the Slutsk district, the Rudnyanskoye reservoir in the village of Rudnya in the Slutsk district, the beach on the Soligorskoye reservoir in Soligorsk, the beach in Lyuban, swimming areas in the village of Saska Lipka, the village of Narutsevichi in the Niasvizh district, as well as pond No. 2 in Kopyl and the GSOK "Logoisk" pond in the Logoisk district. In Minsk, these are beaches No. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 of the "Drozdy" reservoir, beaches No. 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 of the Zaslavskoye reservoir, and beaches No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of the Tsnyanskoye reservoir. In the Mogilev region, the restrictions apply to Grebenyevskoye Lake, the city beach on the Dnieper River in Mogilev, beaches on the Dnieper River near the village of Polykovichi and on the Vilchitskoye reservoir in the Mogilev district, the beach of the "Shinnik" sanatorium of OJSC "Belshina", the beach of the state unitary enterprise "V.I. Lenin Sanatorium", and city beaches No. 1, 2 in Babruisk, the beach on the Zhadunka River in the urban settlement of Khotimsk, and the city beach on the Dnieper River in Shklov.
Swimming for children is restricted in 12 recreation areas. In Brest Region, these include the central beach of Oltushskoye Lake in the agro-town of Oltush, Lukovskoye Lake in the agro-town of Lukovo, and the reservoir in the city park of Malorita. In Gomel Region, the restrictions apply to the "Kaskad 2" beach in Gomel, the beach on the Pripyat River in Narovlya, and the city beach (bay) on the Dnieper River in Rechytsa. Grodno Region is also on the list: this includes the beach in the urban-type settlement of Zelva, the beach of the "Golubaya Volna" health camp in Zelvensky District, and the pond on Bagration Street in Slonim. In Minsk Region, the restrictions concern the reservoir of the settlement of Berezinskoe in Molodechno District, beaches No. 5 and 6 of the "Vyacha" reservoir in Minsk District, and the reservoir in the village of Sakovichi in Soligorsk District.
Over the past week, specialists from the sanitary and epidemiological service have inspected 399 recreation areas. Violations of sanitary norms, rules, and hygienic standards concerning the equipment and maintenance of public toilets, vehicle parking lots, changing rooms, container sites, and containers for solid municipal waste collection, among other things, were identified at 23 of these locations.
Five administrative offence reports were drawn up against responsible officials, 16 recommendations were issued for the elimination of identified deficiencies, 18 letters were sent to local executive bodies, and 22 letters were sent to departments. Laboratory tests of 801 water samples were conducted, 91 of which did not comply with established hygienic standards (62 due to microbiological indicators, 29 due to sanitary-chemical indicators).