The corresponding decree of the chief state sanitary doctor - head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
"Those arriving after May 1, 2021 from foreign countries to the territory of Russia ... need to undergo a repeated laboratory test for COVID-19 using the PCR method within up to five calendar days," the document says.
Rospotrebnadzor also ordered Russians arriving from Turkey and Tanzania to Russia before May 1 to take a coronavirus test twice.