“Today we are additionally deploying a building in Sochi for patients - in case we have to take vacationing tourists directly to the territory of Russia,” Murashko said.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the opening of the Russian-Abkhaz border.

The deputy head of the State Security Service of Abkhazia Rustam Latipov said that since the opening of the border, “several thousand people” have entered the republic.

Later, the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus in Abkhazia proposed to introduce restrictive measures on the border of the republic with Russia in connection with the opening of the border.