Coronavirus As of Monday, you can hardly get anywhere in Estonia without a corona passport

Movement In Estonia, without a corona passport, it will become even more difficult on Monday when the new restrictions come into force.

Unvaccinated customers will no longer have access to restaurants, bars or cafes at all. Applicants to theaters, films, concerts, meetings, museums and exhibitions are also required to have either a certificate of full vaccination protection or covid-19 disease within six months. A negative test result is therefore no longer valid.

Regulations on the use of masks will be tightened so that a scarf wrapped in front of the nose is no longer enough. Respiratory protection is mandatory, for example, in grocery stores and other premises where a corona passport is not required. The mask is also recommended for use in places that cannot be accessed without a passport.

A mask is not required for those under 12 years of age or a passport for those under 18 years of age. Schools remain in contact teaching. Patients and their families are required to remain in quarantine. The regulations are valid until January 10.

Traveling From Finland to Estonia and back is unrestricted with a vaccine certificate. Time from the last dose is required to seven to fifteen days, depending on the type of vaccine. You can also enter Estonia with a recent, negative test result or a certificate of a disease. Otherwise, children under the age of 12 will be directed to a rapid test in the Port of Tallinn.

You can get to Finland from Estonia on the same principles. If there are less than three days from the negative corona test, the passenger must go to the corona test in Finland within 3–5 days. If there are no certificates, the first test is taken at the border.

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Estonians are particularly concerned about the health care situation. The hospital had 466 coronary patients on Sunday morning.

Tightenings due to the deteriorating epidemic situation in the Baltic States. According to Sunday morning data, the incidence rate in Estonia, ie the number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the previous two weeks, was 1,238. In Lithuania, the incidence rate was 1,293 and in Latvia 1,606.

Latvia already declared a closed state on Thursday because of the corona. The regulations include a ban on moving out without a compelling reason between eight in the evening and five in the morning. Latvia’s strict regulations are in force for at least a month.

Estonians are particularly concerned about the health situation. He was in the hospital on Sunday morning Postman magazine according to 466 coronary patients, about two-thirds of whom were unvaccinated. More than half of Estonians have received a full set of vaccines.

Estonian Broadcasting Corporation ERR according to hospitals, they are able to provide care at their best for about 600 coronary patients. Urgent treatments have already been postponed to ensure that hospital beds are sufficient for coronary patients.

Despite this situation, there are also keen opponents of vaccines and restrictions. Jurist Varro Vooglaidin On Saturday, the Foundation for the Protection of Family and Traditions, SAPTK, organized a demonstration against the new regulations in Tallinn’s Freedom Square. According to media reports, thousands of people from all over the country were present.

The streams were viewed ERR according to the government to end “compulsory vaccinations, childhood vaccinations and the sharing of society with coronary passports”. There were several representatives of the populist party Ekre present. The posters called for an “end to dictatorship” and a prime minister Kaja Kallasin “Stopping”. In addition, “how many vaccination deaths are needed” were asked, and Estonia was asked to protect God.

Auction employees of the Pizza Americana restaurant on the outskirts, according to the ERR, were harassed by protesters after demanding customers to present a corona passport. Due to an incident pizzeria only stated that it was delivering orders because of the “mental terror” it was facing.

The backlash of citizens who disagreed with Vooglaid and partners quickly followed on social media. The Facebook group “Uhhuude ja Külahullude Encyclopedia” immediately raised 500 euros for pizzas to be sent to the employees of West Tallinn Central Hospital. Chief physician of the hospital Arkadi Popov replied on Saturday afternoon On his Facebook wall having purchased 40 takeaways and thanked for the help.

The rapture gave rise to a spontaneous relief campaign. Evening paper said restaurants and cafes gathered tea, coffee and chocolate on Saturday and Sunday to cheer up hospital staff, among other things.

Correction 24.10. at 16.36: The article previously erroneously claimed that Estonian hospitals would be able to provide intensive care at its best to about 600 patients. In reality, hospitals are able to treat about 600 coronary patients at a time at all. The figure includes the total hospital care capacity, including intensive care.