The Estonian Ministry of Defense paid 1.35 million euros in disturbance fees to 16 local governments in connection with military training grounds this year.
The Unemployment Insurance Fund received 17 notices of collective redundancies between October 1 and November 4. However, Lauri Kool, the PR adviser of the Fund, emphasizes that this is not the final number, because these statistics do not include those not collectively layd off.
Over the past decade, the number of internal security personnel has decreased by a fifth. But the trend of the last year and a half is startling even compared to previous years.
Wearing masks in public indoor premises will become mandatory for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people from Friday. Children between the ages of 12 and 17 will also have to present Covid certificates to access events where documents are checked but can alternatively produce a negative test result. Covid certificates will only be valid with identity documents.