OREANDA-NEWS. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Fedot Tumusov said that the abolition of the mask regime and other coronavirus restrictions is timely. However, those who are concerned about their health can continue to wear masks, Radio 1 writes.

The weakening of the sanitary regime is due to the fact that the incidence has subsided, and, at least in Moscow, the previous rates of the spread of coronavirus are no longer there. But, nevertheless, this does not mean that the disease does not exist at all. It exists, and the risk of contracting COVID-19, although it has decreased, has not disappeared,” he said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the abolition of the mask regime and a number of anti-COVID measures in the capital from March 15. Following the restrictions were lifted in the suburbs. The authorities of St. Petersburg on that day announced that the next wave of coronavirus infection in the city had ended.

At the same time, over the past day in Russia, the number of hospitalizations due to covid has more than doubled compared to the previous day. 7273 people with coronavirus were admitted to hospitals. The daily increase in incidence was 36,678 cases.