"Regarding the extension of the holidays due to the pandemic: this is not planned, we are not discussing this issue ... As for the early holidays, each region decides for itself," TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Moscow Department of Education and Science recommended that schools in the capital establish New Year's holidays from December 27 to January 9.

According to newsnn.ru, 40 schools and seven kindergartens in the Nizhny Novgorod region have been quarantined for influenza and COVID-19.