Leningrad Issues COVID-19 Vaccination Decree

The Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, signed a decree on June 18, 2021, stimulating the vaccination of the population against coronavirus.

In particular, the document recommends the heads of state and municipal institutions, as well as private organizations and individual entrepreneurs in the field of education, health care, social protection, housing and communal services and energy, trade, transport, multifunctional centers, museums, libraries, theaters, cinemas, houses of culture, children's camps and children's playrooms, must ensure that at least 80% of their employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 by September 1, 2021.

The same number of state civil and municipal employees of the Leningrad Region must be vaccinated by September 1st.

For mass events, restrictions are lifted if all participants have certificates of completing the full course of vaccination against COVID-19, or a negative PCR test presented no later than 72 hours before the event.

Furthermore, two local districts, Kirishsky and Volkhovsky, went into the "yellow" zone and Boksitogorsky into the "red".