"In the current situation, when the virus is raging, when many people have a weakened body due to a past illness, I would not recommend any Orthodox believer to plunge into the hole," TASS quotes him.
Earlier, the Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, in an interview with the radio Komsomolskaya Pravda, said that he did not recommend participating in Epiphany bathing for those who were vaccinated against coronavirus.
Also, Professor of the Janelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine in St. Petersburg, Yevgeny Zinoviev, recommended that the townspeople who have suffered coronavirus refrain from swimming in the ice hole for Epiphany.