Swimming is prohibited in 66 public recreation areas in Belarus

July 25, Minsk / Vladimir Matveev - BELTA /. As of July 24, swimming is prohibited in 66 public recreation areas in Belarus. This was reported to BELTA correspondent by the Republican Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Belarus. More than half of the public recreation areas on the "black list" are located in the Minsk region (34). Here, swimming is prohibited in the Smolevichi and Petrovichi reservoirs, lakes near the villages of Novosełki, Sloboda, Mstizh, Kholkholitsa in the Barysau district, as well as lakes near the villages of Chiki and Danilovichi in the Dzyarzhynsk district. Also prohibited for swimmers are the "Dubki" recreation area in the Barysau district and the recreation area of the city of Barysau. Swimming is unsafe for health in the Dubrovskoye reservoir in the Smolevichi district, ponds in the villages of Fastovichi and Novye Falichi, as well as the "Levki" reservoir in the Starodorozhsky district. The Titovka River (in the recreation zone of the city of Maryina Horka, Pukhavichy district) and the Sluch River (Slutsk district) do not meet sanitary and epidemiological standards. In Stolbtsy and the Stolbtsy district, swimming is prohibited in the Neman River (beach of TOK "Vysokiy Bereg" village of Nikolaevshchina, beach "Teremok" village of Novy Sverzhen, recreation area in Stolbtsy, in the villages of Zhukov Borok and Nikolaevshchina). Also prohibited are the recreation area in the "Akintchitsy" microdistrict of the city of Stolbtsy, the recreation area of the village of Konkolovichi, and lakes in the villages of Novaya and Gorki. In the Volozhin district of the Minsk region, it is better not to enter the water of the Volozhin reservoir, the "Zhyolty Bereg" recreation area, and the recreation area on the Volmyanka River. In addition, swimming is prohibited in two recreation areas in the city of Lyuban, at the Soligorsk reservoir, in the pond of the village of Kvasynichi (Slutsk district), the lake in the urban settlement of Pleshchenitsy (Logoisk district), and the Gayna River in Logoisk. In Minsk, resolutions prohibiting swimming and recreation have been issued regarding the "Tsna" reservoir, beaches 6-8 of the "Drozdy" reservoir, and the recreation area near beaches 6, 8-9 of the "Zaslavskoye" reservoir. In total, 3 reservoirs in Minsk are under a swimming ban. The Brest region ranks second in terms of the number of unsafe places for swimming and recreation. Here, medics do not recommend swimming in Lake Svetilovskoye (Baranovichi district), the Shchara River near the village of Darevo; in the recreation area of the "Chaika" health camp; the Vedma River (Lyakhovichy district); Lake Syatye near the village of Velemichi (Stolin district); Lake "Chornoye" and the "Selets" reservoir in the Beryoza district. The prohibited list also includes the city beach on the Mukhavets River in Kobrin; recreation areas of the "Nadzeya" and "Bug" sanatoriums, the city beach on the Mukhavets River and in the Zhabinka district; the recreation area on the Lesnaya River (Kamyanets), as well as the Kater and Shestakovo reservoirs in the Kamyanets district. In the Vitebsk region, swimming is prohibited in the Western Dvina River (except for the recreation area of the "Mazurino" park in Vitebsk), the Luchosa and Vitba rivers in Vitebsk, lakes Shaty, Suya, and Yanovo in the Polotsk district; in the recreation area of the "Chaika" children's health camp; on the Dnieper River (in Orsha) and Lake Shchetinka in the Orsha district. In the Grodno region, the ponds in the villages of Lutskovlyany and Sukhovlyany (Grodno district), as well as the recreation areas on the Neman River in Grodno: the "XXII Party Congress" beach and the "Central" beach, do not meet sanitary and epidemiological standards. A total of one body of water each is under a ban in the Mogilev and Gomel regions. These are the Basya River in the Chausy district and the recreation area of the Central Sports Complex beach in the Zhlobin district. -0-