"In total, 50 schools in 27 regions of Russia still maintain quarantine measures in connection with the spread of COVID-19," the materials quoted by TASS say.

As of September 21, 0.08% of schools were quarantined, the agency said.

On September 13, Dmitry Afanasyev, the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, said that in the new academic year all universities began to work in full-time format, and there were no plans to transfer them to a remote location.