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The total number of confirmed coronavirus infection cases in Belarus increased by 1,789 from 944,885 on Tuesday to 946,674 on Wednesday, with the death toll rising by 10 from 6,688 to 6,698, according to the country&#8217;s health ministry. The ministry said that a total of 942,135 people had recovered from the coronavirus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-41613","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus&#039; official coronavirus death toll rises to 6,698 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 17, BPN. 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