Russia to resume flights with Belarus and others from next week amid Covid-19

Throwing its borders open, Russia will resume flights with Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and South Korea from next week

(Milcah Anila, Intern Journalist)Russia: Russia will resume flights with Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan from Sept. 21, and with South Korea from Sept. 27, Russia’s coronavirus crisis center, a government body, said in a statement on Friday.

The flights will operate in both directions and will be weekly, the center said.

The center also said that it was suspending the government’s special evacuation flights, a program launched to return Russian citizens to Russia after international air travel links were suspended in spring due to the coronavirus pandemic.