abstract: Our research goal was to examine health risk perception and adherence to vaccination against COVID-19 among various social and demographic population groups in Belarus.To achieve this goal, a cross-sectional study was accomplished via using an online poll.The obtained results reveal that perception of health risks caused by COVID-19 is quite significant among people living in Belarus since only 9.9 % of the questioned do not consider COVID-19 a dangerous disease.Higher levels of risk perception 
journal: Health risk analysis