“Next week we will tighten entry into the region. Only for emergency work passes and passports with registration in the area. We’ll stop working passes for the weekend, except in urgent cases, ”wrote Gleb Nikitin, the region’s governor, on Instagram.

He noted that all those entering without a work pass into the region will be sent to quarantine.

“Tell everyone you know who planned to come to our place to relax in May,” Nikitin added.

On the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region, 1214 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded.

Earlier it was reported that several nuns of the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevo nunnery in the Nizhny Novgorod region were infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus, the monastery was quarantined.