A new official bathing zone has been opened in Viimsi, just outside Tallinn, and has already proven popular as hot weather arrived in time for the midsummer holiday, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported.
The swimming area at a popular Tallinn beach is to be shifted a few hundred meters along this summer, in an effort to mitigate the effects of pollution and in the interests of public health.
Health minister Tanel Kiik (Center) says he hopes a bill which would give the Riigikogu a greater role in imposing restrictions during a pandemic situation will pass at the very same Riigikogu, by the autumn at the latest.
Several bars and restaurants in Estonia have announced they will no longer be complying with Covid restrictions, claiming that the regulations are now redundant and are harming the sector.
The government has approved amendments to the main piece of legislation governing the state's powers in the case of a communicable disease. The amendments would ostensibly put the legislature on an equal footing with the executive, and amends legislation which had predated the Covid pandemic.