other measures president putin, prime minister mikhail mishustin and moscow mayor sergey sobyanin visited the coronavirus monitoring centre on 17 march call centre for the coronavirus situation in moscow at khodynsky boulevard located in the gym of school no. 1409.on 14 and 15 march, ministry of education and ministry of science and higher education recommended regions to adopt distance learning if it becomes necessary. on 17 march, ministry of culture announced closing all cultural institutions under its jurisdiction, including museums, theatres, symphonies, and circuses. on the same day, president vladimir putin said that the situation was "generally under control". on 18 march, minister of education sergey kravtsov announced that all russian schools would be closed from 23 march to 12 april. on 19 march, russia's chief sanitary doctor, anna popova, required all people arriving from abroad to undergo a two-week self-isolation. russian courts stopped considering all but most urgent cases because of the pandemic until 10 april. on 24 march, the russian government adopted a number of decisions, including an instruction to regional authorities to suspend activities of any nightclubs, cinemas, children's entertainment centres, and to ban hookah smoking at any restaurants or cafes. the central bank recommended all the banks to keep the money for 3–4 days before giving it to clients or loading it into atms, and to restrict usage of cash recycling atms. on 25 march, president putin, in a televised address to the nation, announced that the 2020 russian constitutional referendum would be postponed due to the coronavirus. he added that the next week would be a nationwide paid holiday and urged russians to stay at home. putin also announced a list of measures of social protection, support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and changes in fiscal policy. on 26 march, minister of science and higher education valery falkov ordered all universities to close from 28 march to 5 april. children's playground during june, 2020 wrapped up into a barricade tape. on 27 march, as a follow-up to putin's address to the nation, prime minister mikhail mishustin ordered all reservations at pensions or holiday houses to be cancelled from 28 march to 1 june, recommended regional authorities to close all the pistes at resorts for the same period, instructed them to force all the public eating places (except for delivery services) to suspend activities from 28 march to 5 april, and recommended that citizens refrain from travelling. on the same day, the ministry of education announced the postponement of the unified state exam from the end of may to the beginning of june. on 30 march, as moscow and moscow oblast declared a lockdown, mishustin urged all regions to follow the example and take similar measures. he also announced a bill that would raise fines for breaching quarantine requirements. on 31 march, the federal assembly approved a law allowing the executive cabinet to declare a state of emergency on its own. previously, only a commission led by the minister of emergency situations could do that. on 1 april, prime minister mishustin and the minister of communications maxut shadayev announced creating a system of tracking quarantine violation based on data of mobile network operators. violators will receive a text message, and if they breach it systematically, the information will be sent to the police. on 2 april, president putin extended the non-working period to 30 april. lockdowns map of federal subjects that have announced the "self-isolation regime". stay-at-home order partial restrictions or recommendations playground closed for quarantine, 7 april 2020 on 28 march, chechen authorities urged the population of the republic to stay at their places of permanent residence, and banned entry to grozny for anyone except emergency services, food supplies, government officials, police, and journalists. on the next day, chechnya closed its borders, with a full lockdown coming into effect on 30 march. on 29 march, moscow issued a stay-at-home order for all residents starting on 30 march. muscovites were not allowed to leave their homes except in cases of emergency medical care and other threats to life and health, to travel to work for those who are obliged to, to make purchases in the nearest shop or pharmacy, to walk pets at a distance not exceeding 100 metres from the place of residence, as well as to take out the garbage. people were instructed to keep a distance of 1.5 metres from other people. those recently unemployed will receive 19,500 rubles a month. after that, a similar regime was introduced in moscow oblast at 20:00 msk on 29 march. senator andrey klishas, chair of the federation council committee on constitutional legislation and state construction, criticised this decision, saying that such restrictions are the exclusive competence of the federal assembly and the president. on 30 march, similar orders were announced in adygea, the komi republic, mari el, tatarstan, chuvashia, some districts of yakutia, arkhangelsk, astrakhan, belgorod, irkutsk, kaliningrad, kursk, lipetsk, murmansk, nizhny novgorod, novgorod, ryazan, saratov, sverdlovsk, ulyanovsk and vologda oblasts, the cities of bryansk and saint petersburg. leningrad oblast banned movement of people between districts and introduced a lockdown in the town of murino. on 31 march, the "self-isolation regime" was announced in republics of altai, bashkortostan, buryatia, dagestan, ingushetia, kabardino-balkaria, kalmykia, karachay-cherkessia, karelia, khakassia, mordovia, udmurtia and tuva, altai, khabarovsk (for those over 65), krasnodar, krasnoyarsk, perm, primorsky, stavropol and zabaykalsky krais, bryansk, chelyabinsk, kaluga, kemerovo, kirov, kostroma, kurgan, magadan, novosibirsk, omsk, penza, pskov (for those over 65), rostov, sakhalin, samara, smolensk, tambov, tomsk, vladimir, volgograd, voronezh and yaroslavl oblasts, khanty-mansi and yamalo-nenets autonomous okrugs, the jewish autonomous oblast, the city of sevastopol. republics of yakutia and karelia limited the sale of alcohol. on 1 april, the "self-isolation regime" was announced in the disputed territory of crimea and sevastopol, the republic of north ossetia–alania, kamchatka and khabarovsk krais, ivanovo and orenburg oblasts. on 2 april, the measures were announced in amur oblast (for those over 65), tyumen oblast, and chukotka autonomous okrug. on 3 april, the measures were announced in oryol oblast and tula oblast (for those over 65). medical supervision russia has regularly reported the number of people under medical supervision because they were suspected of having the virus. on 25 april 168,000 people on 26 april 170,000 people on 27 april 183,000 people on 5 may russia reported that a total of 806,709 people had been under medical supervision to date during the outbreak and the current number was 222,500. on 8 may 292,000 people were under medical surveillance. on 9 may 242,000 people were under medical surveillance. medical and protective equipment on 4 march, russia temporarily banned the export of medical masks, gloves, bandages, and protective suits. on 28 april president vladimir putin summarised progress on producing additional equipment as follows: ventilator production increased from 60 to 70 per month to over 800 in april and 2,500 in may face masks from 800,000 per day to 8.5m in april protective suits for doctors from 3,000 per day to 100,000 per day by end of april and 150,000 per day by mid-may additional production was required and the ministry of industry and trade was given the task to further increase daily production. on 15 june 2020, human rights watch documented that healthcare workers in russia were facing threats and reprisal from employers and law enforcement. the medical workers were being targeted for speaking about lack of adequate personal protective equipment (ppe) to safely treat suspected patients and prevent the spread of covid-19. an ad asking visitors to provide qr-codes and identification papers. only 18 years old were allowed. ryazan, russia. qr-code mandate on november 15, 2021 due to a surge of number of covid-19 cases russian government submitted several bills to gosduma to force businesses to verify qr-code passes obtained by citizens in order to prove vaccination before granting them access to mass public events, restaurants, retailers, and cultural institutions, as well as trains and planes. several cities and regions have reportedly enacted similar decrees earlier in november. local measures moscow and moscow oblast president putin visits coronavirus patients at city clinical hospital no. 40 in kommunarka on 24 march. denis protsenko (middle), the medical director of the kommunarka hospital visited by president putin (left) and moscow mayor sobyanin (right), tested positive for the coronavirus on 31 march 2020. construction of an infection centre in moscow in connection with the spread of coronavirus started on 12 march. the photo shows progress as of 16 march 2020.21 march 2020.infectious diseases hospital in voronovskoye was opened on 17 april. moscow started the construction of a special hospital for the coronavirus patients near the villages of babenki and golokhvastovo in troitsky administrative okrug. from the beginning of the outbreak, moscow patients have been brought to already-in-place newly constructed yet underused city hospital no. 40 in the district of kommunarka, which is located outside mkad and only recently got a metro station. subsequently, almost 30 hospitals in moscow started to receive suspected covid-19 patients, with being the city hospital no. 15, infectious hospital no. 2, bashlyaeva children's hospital, infectious hospital no. 2, and the hospital in kommunarka being the most capacious of them. in mid-april, it was announced that additional 24 hospitals would be repurposed to receive coronavirus patients, bringing the total number of beds available in the city to 21 thousand. on 6 march, mayor of moscow sergey sobyanin announced a "high alert regime", ordering self-isolation for two weeks for russians returning from china, south korea, iran, france, germany, italy and spain. on 10 march, mayor sobyanin signed a decree for banning mass events in moscow with more than 5,000 participants from 10 march to 10 april. on 12 march, the governor of moscow oblast andrey vorobyov has announced a high alert status, banning large events with over 5,000 people. since 16 march, school attendance was optional in moscow and moscow oblast. according to rbk, moscow recommended that private schools go on a two-week holiday or switch to distance learning. on 21 march, schools were closed for three weeks. on 16 march, moscow extended measures to closing public schools, athletic schools and supplemental education institutions from 21 march to 12 april; banning indoor events with more than 50 attendees and all outdoor mass events. the compulsory 14-day self-isolation which had been previously enforced to people coming china, south korea and iran, was extended to those coming from the united states and all european countries. on 23 march, mayor sobyanin ordered all people over 65 to self-isolate at home starting thursday, saying each would receive 4,000 rubles (around $50) for following the order. he also suggested that older residents leave moscow and stay in their dachas. school students' public transportation cards were temporarily suspended, starting from the 5th grade. on 24 march, it was announced that moscow hospitals would receive up to 200,000 rubles (around $2,500) for each coronavirus patient from the city's health insurance fund. on 25 march, following the respective decision of the federal government, mayor sobyanin ordered the closure of all municipal libraries and clubs, as well as cinemas and nightclubs, banned hookah smoking in cafes, and suspended any organised leisure social activities, including amusement parks. he also instructed dental clinics to see patients with acute pain or other emergencies only. municipal multiservice centres suspended services, except for those unavailable online. free or concessionary use of public transport was suspended for people aged over 65, with chronic diseases, students of vocational schools or high schools. on 26 march, mayor sobyanin ordered restaurants, cafes, bars, canteens, parks, commercial, and retail businesses requiring personal attendance, except those providing essential services, like grocery shops and pharmacies, to close during the week from 28 march to 5 april, the holiday week announced by president putin. on 28 march, sobyanin urged muscovites to stay at home, except for seeking medical help, work travel, local shopping, walking pets not further than 100 m from home, taking out trash. he announced that a "smart control system" would be introduced to control these rules. on 3 april, sobyanin announced that the city bike-sharing system velobike would resume operation after the winter break on 10 april, but will be available for delivery agents and volunteers only, free of charge. on 4 april, he ordered all the businesses in the city that were working to secure a social distance of at