"The administration of the Smolensk region decides: to introduce restrictive measures (quarantine) on the territory of the Vyazemsky urban settlement of the Vyazemsky district of the Smolensk region, providing for the period from 00:00 (Moscow time) April 16, 2020 to 24:00 (Moscow time) April 30, 2020 inclusive," - stated in the decree published on the website of the regional administration.

In Vyazma, construction works are temporarily prohibited, a ban is introduced on the activities of all organizations, individual entrepreneurs, with the exception of backbone enterprises and a number of others.

Earlier it was reported that in the Vyazemsky district of the Smolensk region, 86 people living and working in a boarding house for the elderly and disabled are suspected of having a coronavirus infection COVID-19.