Russia air travel, January: Russia earlier on Saturday announced resuming the flight operations from Moscow (capital of Russia) to the respective capitals of Finland, Vietnam, India and Qatar from January 27. The decision was taken after certain epidemiological criteria were introduced, news agency Reuters reported.
After a meeting was held for the coronavirus HQ of the government, a statement was released stating that the mentioned four countries were seeing lesser than 40 new cases per fortnight per 100,000 citizens. The coronavirus response centre stated on Saturday that Russia had registered 24,092 covid cases in last 24 hours which was down from 24,715 as of the previous day count.
Further, the centre quoted, “Over the past day, 24,092 coronavirus cases were confirmed across 85 Russian regions, including 3,113 cases (12.9 per cent) that were detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms.”
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Russia air travel was suspended since the early weeks of pandemic and it finally would resume now. The air travel has been affected in the whole country amid the spread to coronavirus on large scale. Even though now the cases are reducing all around, the fear is still up as the new mutation of covid has it.
Russia still has more or fewer coronavirus cases with each day passing. Moscow’s covid count was confirmed at 5,639 over the given period. However, the previous day count was less at 5,534.
