"According to the monitoring carried out by the Ministry ... three universities - in October (two private universities and the Russian Academy named after Ilya Glazunov) and two more private universities - in November," the press service quotes RIA Novosti.
It will be clarified that these are universities from Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Sverdlovsk Region and the Stavropol Territory.
Earlier it became known that students and university staff would not be obliged to take tests for the presence of coronavirus before the start of the academic year.