“Colleagues, we are doing everything so that we can keep the State Duma operational, so once again I draw your attention to the fact that a lot depends on us,” he said.

According to him, the necessary distance between the participants is observed at the meetings. 

“We agreed that the restrictions were observed here. You see, there are restrictions on the distance between Alexander Dmitrievich Zhukov and Peter Olegovich Tolstoy, ”said Volodin.

He invited the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko to speak from the rostrum without a medical mask, since the rostrum is at a remote distance from other participants.

“For the convenience of work, we will make an exception for the presenter and the speaker on the podium, because we will either turn it into a“ bu-bu-bu ”(performance) or these masks will need to be changed simply constantly. I don’t think that here it will cause a threat at a distance that everyone considers to be a sanitary norm. We’ll introduce a tradition for a pandemic that speakers can be without a mask, ”said the speaker.

Earlier it was reported that five deputies of the State Duma fell ill with a coronavirus.