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International flights at the first stage of the resumption of air traffic will be allowed only from six Russian cities, the Izvestia newspaper writes. This list includes Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok. This is stated in the draft document prepared by the Federal Air Transport Agency.
The cities were selected based on the principle of geographical accessibility, so that there would be a working air harbor in each macro-region. In Moscow, all three airports will operate international flights. At the second stage, Rospotrebnadzor will study the epidemiological situation and make changes to the list every two weeks. The government will receive a list of countries where it will be possible to go from any international airport in the country.
The possibility of resuming international flights has appeared, since the incidence of coronavirus has been decreasing in Russia for a long time. It is planned that the planes will fly only to places where the number of cases does not exceed one percent per day, and the average number of infected people does not exceed 40 per 100,000 of residents within two weeks.
Quarantine will be canceled for foreigners arriving to Russia from other countries but no later than three days in advance, they will have to do a COVID-19 test and provide the relevant medical documents.
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