Russia to increase number of flights to Egypt on February 8

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Fri, 29 Jan 2021 - 09:23 GMT

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Fri, 29 Jan 2021 - 09:23 GMT

Sharm El Sheikh Airport

Sharm El Sheikh Airport

CAIRO – 28 January 2021: Russia will resume international flights on February 8, 2021 to certain countries, including Egypt, announced the Russian operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus in a statement on Thursday.

 

The international flights would take off from eight international airports of the country, including the cities of Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Khabarovsk. The center noted that the number of the regular flights will increase the numbers of flights to Egypt.

 

On January 16 ,2021, the Russian center announced raising the number of regular flights between Moscow and Cairo to five weekly flights, Russian news agency TASS reported.

 

"It was decided to increase the number of regular flights to Egypt on the Moscow-Cairo route to five a week,” the center said in a statement.

 

This comes as the Russian government announced in September operating three flights per week to Cairo, resuming flights after months of hiatus over coronavirus.

 

Although Egypt has witnessed a second wave of coronavirus since mind-December, the country still welcomes tourists at various areas including the Red Sea resorts amid strict coronavirus measures.

 

In a December visit to France where he met with President Emmanuel Macron, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said that Red Sea resorts such as Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada have almost zero cases of coronavirus.

 

He highlighted the anti-coronavirus efforts in Egypt, noting that the coronavirus cases in Egypt in general are quite moderate.

 

Egypt thanks the countries that decided to resume tourism with the African country, the foreign ministry said in a statement after a meeting with a number of European ambassadors in November.

 

The foreign ministry invited other countries to allow citizens to visit Egypt, in light of the strict procedures taken by the Egyptian authorities to secure tourist attractions, which record almost zero coronavirus cases.

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