Russia has promised not to introduce a mandatory mask regime

There are no plans to introduce a mandatory mask regime and other restrictions during the New Year holidays and holidays in Russia, the country’s Rospotrebnadzor said. The department wrote about this in its telegram channel, referring to its head Anna Popova.

Despite this, Rospotrebnadzor urges people not to forget about the rules of personal prevention of infectious diseases.

Earlier, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko said that in Russia there is a seasonal increase in the incidence of coronavirus, influenza and ARVI. According to him, the situation with COVID-19 in the country is “controllable and predictable.”