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According to a recent press conference, 60,000 tourists visited the area last year. Today’s question is about the State of Emergency and the idea of ‘tourist exclusion zones’ in NSW. Despite the danger of the destruction of buildings, the tourists of the Zone climb up onto the rooftops, walk around the dilapidated premises, which were shops, schools, and swimming pools. But fans of extreme tourism should not despair. The exclusion zone that surrounds the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine is going to once again open to the public as Ukrainian government eases the restrictions imposed amid the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, local media outlet UNIAN reports citing a statement issued by the state agency in charge of managing the zone. There are two ways of getting into the exclusion zone – the first one is via a travel agency or booking an excursion via the Reserve. As a result, the 30-km exclusion zone was created by the government: dozens of villages were buried in the ground, and Pripyat is considered a ghost town without the possibility of living there. After 10 days of forest fires raging near Chernobyl, some 30% of tourist attractions have been destroyed in the exclusion zone. However, since 2011 the Ukrainian government has allowed organised tours to enter the Exclusion Zone, which includes the workers' town of Pripyat and Chernobyl itself, from which the plant took its name.