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In order to prevent the spread of infection among suspects, accused and convicted persons, as well as employees of the penitentiary system of the Russian Federation, was issued a resolution by the chief state sanitary doctor - head of the branch of the Central State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service No. restrictive measures aimed at countering the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

In a number of media appeared information about outbreak of coronavirus infection between convicted person in correctional colony № 12. This information does not correspond to reality. There are no cases of illness of coronavirus infection among convicted, suspected and accused in facilities of UFSIN of Russian Federation on Vologda region.

In order to prevent the spread of morbidity among suspects, accused and convicted persons, as well as employees of the penitentiary system, from 12.11.2020 and until further notice, long and short-term visits will be suspended in all institutions of the Main department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Perm Territory in accordance with the decree of the head of the department for ensuring sanitary epidemiological surveillance of the medical and sanitary unit № 59 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia No. 1438 dated 09.11.2020.

Since November 5, 2020, in accordance with the decree of the chief state sanitary doctor-head of the branch of the medical-sanitary unit № 49 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, short-term visits of convicts with relatives have been resumed in correctional colony №4 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Magadan Region.

In correctional institutions and pre-trial detention centers of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Murmansk Region, restrictive measures continue to operate a cause of the spread of a new coronavirus infection and an increase in the incidence rate in the region.