According to him, when following the military to the duty station, their contact with civilians will be excluded.

“The transportation of draftees will be carried out by separate railway cars. Civil aircraft will be used only if they are loaded by military teams, ”the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper quoted him as saying.

Gerasimov said that the number of troops in one car will be reduced by a third.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a bulletin with statistics on coronavirus infection COVID-19 among military personnel.