“Over the past week, in connection with the increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in eight regions of the country, new restrictions have already been introduced for business.

Despite the epidemiological situation, the business cannot be re-closed, ”RIA Novosti quoted Titov as saying. 

He stressed that one cannot “close the economy again”.

According to the ombudsman, this is ineffective in terms of sanitary purposes and destructive in terms of social and economic consequences. 

Earlier, State Duma Deputy Yevgeny Fedorov proposed to ban concerts in restaurants, cafes and bars until the end of the year against the backdrop of an exacerbated situation with COVID-19.

As virologist Anatoly Altstein noted in an interview with the NSN, the more strictly Russians observe anti-epidemic measures, the faster the situation will begin to change for the better.