President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhaniya signed a Decree on the Individual Measures to Protect the Health of the Population of the Republic of Abkhazia from COVID-19.
On the basis of a decision by the Coordination Headquarters for the protection of the population of the Republic of Abkhazia from COVID-19 from June 29, 2020, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Health have been instructed, following the procedure for intergovernmental interaction, to work with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and the Federal Agency for Tourism on considering the possibility of opening checkpoints across the Abkhazian-Russian state border to facilitate the organization of the tourist season in 2020 from July 15, 2020, if the epidemiological situation in the Republic of Abkhazia and in the Russian Federation is to remain favorable.