Non-working days have been extended in some regions of Russia: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
In some regions of Russia, non-working days have been extended due to the situation with COVID-19, reports RT…
Five subjects of the country – Chelyabinsk, Kursk, Bryansk, Smolensk and Tomsk regions – made a decision to extend non-working ones during the day. Earlier, the authorities of the Novgorod region decided to take similar measures.
In the Bryansk region, non-working days introduced due to a sharp increase in the number of cases of coronavirus will be extended until November 14 inclusive. The head of the Tomsk region, Sergei Zhvachkin, extended the current non-working regime until November 15.
In the Novgorod region, non-working days will remain for another week, until November 15. In the Chelyabinsk and Kursk regions, it was decided to extend the non-working days until November 12.
Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the capital did not plan to extend the non-working days introduced to the city from October 28 to November 7. Mayor, that the situation with COVID-19 in Moscow has stabilized.
President Vladimir Putin supported the proposal of Russian Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova to introduce non-working days in Russia from October 30 to November 7 and stated that it is now especially important “to bring down the new peak of the epidemic wave.” The head of state signed the corresponding decree on October 20.