Starting April 9, Russia will lift restrictions on flights to 52 “friendly” countries, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced Monday, Russian TASS Agency reported.
“As of April 9, we lift the coronavirus restriction, which applied to our regular and charter flights between Russia and a number of countries,” the prime minister said. According to Mishustin, the incidence of Covid is decreasing, so the time has come to expand the destinations available to Russian airlines.
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The prime minister recalled that it was previously possible to fly to 15 countries without restrictions, including some Eurasian Economic Union states, Mexico and Qatar, among others.
The coronavirus task force said that, given the epidemiological situation in some countries, it was decided to completely lift restrictions on charter and scheduled flights to Argentina, Algeria, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bahrain, Botswana, Brazil, Vietnam, Venezuela, Hong Kong, Egypt, Zimbabwe, India and Israel, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, China, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Malaysia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Morocco, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Mongolia, Namibia, Oman, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Fiji, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Philippines, Namibia, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Serbia, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and Uruguay.
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