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As of 1 February 2021, sales and service venues of catering businesses may be open for on-site customer service from 06.00-21.00. It must be taken into consideration that up to six people are allowed to be in a group and move together, keeping at least two metres between themselves and other customers (families are exempt from this). Selling food to go is allowed outside this time frame.

If needed, the Tallinn Social and Health Care Board, in cooperation with the capital's hospitals and ambulances, will ensure that COVID-19 patients are safely transported home from the medical institution.

At today’s cabinet meeting, the members of the Government approved the decisions on the basis of which even more wide-ranging restrictions will come into force in Estonia from Thursday, March 11 until April 11. The restrictions will be eased when the spread of the coronavirus in Estonia has been reduced to the level that does not endanger the medical system’s ability to function. Today the government adopted the decisions in principle, the plan is to approve the corresponding order at tomorrow’s extraordinary meeting.

At the extraordinary meeting, the Government approved the amendment to the 2021–2023 Employment Programme that, in accordance with the proposal of the Council of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, allows supporting the companies that have suffered the most from the restrictions. At the previous cabinet meeting, it was also decided to support the undertakings of the Ministry of Education and Research and of the Ministry of Culture.

From March 1 to March 15, parents can submit applications for the assignment of a school of residence for children entering the first grade of a Tallinn municipal school in September 2021.

Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart, together with a five-member delegation, is taking part in the Eurocities conference in Espoo, Finland, from 8-10 June. Mayor Kõlvart will also attend the Eurocities executive committee meeting and annual general meeting.

The number of foreign tourists in Tallinn is on the rise and more than half of the city residents think that there should be more of them. From the point of view of the future of Tallinn's foreign tourism, it is important to invest in activities that increase the attractiveness of the city as a destination and to maintain a stable economic environment aimed at increasing competitiveness.

On 19 May, the Southeast Asian tropical rainforest exhibition building in Tallinn Zoo was ceremonially opened. Various species can be seen and learned about, even those that have become rare in nature. Guests are welcome to visit the rainforest from 20 May.

Tallinn plans to collaborate with the private sector to construct an Olympic-sized swimming pool in Lasnamäe at the Kuukivi 3 and 5 (formerly Varraku 14a and 14b) properties. In 2019, Tondiraba Ujula OÜ, the winner of the state procurement that year, informed the city in late August that they would be unable to complete the construction of the pool within the agreed-upon time and conditions due to a substantial increase in construction costs. Since the construction project has already been made and all that is missing are the construction procurements, the city has decided to terminate the existing contract and plans to start a new procurement process.

Today the leaders of three European Green Capital award winners Tallinn, Grenoble and Lahti and Ms. Veronica Manfredi, DG Environment Director for Zero Pollution and Green Cities gathered in Brussels to discuss sustainable urban governance and how to achieve the climate and environmental objectives.