In the Kaluga region and in Tatarstan, restrictions on coronavirus for the New Year holidays were the smallest.
In Kaluga, residents and guests of the city will face a parade of Santa Clauses and Snow Maidens. Gastronomic festivals, concerts and ice shows are planned.
Residents of Tatarstan will also be able to comfortably meet 2021. “All tourist points and museum complexes are open in the republic,” the official portal of Kazan quotes the words of Sergei Ivanov, chairman of the Tatarstan State Committee for Tourism.
A smaller choice of urban entertainment among Muscovites and residents of the Moscow region. And the strictest bans await residents of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad.
Doctors are worried about another surge in New Year’s tourism. Any movement and an increase in contacts provoke the spread of infection, says Alexander Butenko, a virologist, professor at the N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
It is important to strike a balance between the economic interest of the regions in tourists and measures that restrain the incidence of diseases, the specialist emphasized.
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