Russia on March 27
suspended regular and charter flights to foreign countries, making an exception
for flights aimed at bringing Russians home.
MOSCOW, March 28.
/TASS/. Russia’s national air carrier Aeroflot will conduct an additional
flight to repatriate Russian nationals from Bali, the Russian Transport
Ministry said in a statement on Twitter.
"In order to
repatriate Russians from Bali, Aeroflot (Rossiya Airlines is the flight
operator) will carry out an additional 457-seat flight from Denpasar on March
29," the statement reads.
Russia on March 27
suspended regular and charter flights to foreign countries, making an exception
for flights aimed at bringing Russians home.
Coronavirus pandemic
In late December
2019, Chinese authorities notified the World Health Organization (WHO) about
the outbreak of a previously unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, central
China. Since then, cases of the novel coronavirus - named COVID-19 by the WHO -
have been reported in more than 160 countries, including Russia.
The WHO on March 11
declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. As of now, more than 570,000
people have been infected around the world and over 26,000 have died.
Source: ITAR-TASS
28-03-2020
