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| Russia restricts air travel to EU over coronavirus, leaving only select few flights open | Russia restricts air travel to EU over coronavirus, leaving only select few flights open |
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| Russia is limiting flights to and from EU member countries, Norway and Switzerland over the Covid-19 pandemic now raging in Europe, exempting only regular flights from Moscow to their capital cities and chartered evacuations. | |
| Temporary flight restrictions will go into effect starting March 16, said the government’s center for combating the spread of the infection. | |
| However, regular flights to capitals of EU member nations, as well as Oslo and Geneva, will continue through Terminal F of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport. Charter flights bringing Russians back to the homeland and repatriating the nationals of other countries will continue as well. | |
| The announcement comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Europe has become the new center of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic, outpacing the daily peak number of cases in China, where the contagion originated in December last year. | |
| As of March 13, there have been over 132,000 cases of Covid-19 across 123 countries and territories, with more than 5,000 deaths. | |
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