{"id":651,"date":"2020-03-26T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intv.pk\/covid-19-russia-to-ground-all-international-flights-from-midnight\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:48:16","slug":"covid-19-russia-to-ground-all-international-flights-from-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Russia to ground all international flights from midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/intv.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bfd8b282c118f3cdade6c862f5170d94_M.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19: Russia to ground all international flights from midnight\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Russia will halt all international flights from midnight on Friday under a government decree listing new measures against the coronavirus outbreak.<\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedFullText\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decree published on Thursday orders aviation authorities to halt all regular and charter flights, with the exception of special flights evacuating Russian citizens from abroad.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia&rsquo;s civil aviation agency Rosaviatsiya will halt &ldquo;regular and charter air travel from Russian airports to airports of foreign states and back,&rdquo; according to the decree published on the government&rsquo;s website. The grounding starts at midnight Friday, or 2100 GMT Thursday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decree said that flights authorised by the Russian government would be exempt from the rule. The new measures do not apply to domestic flights within Russia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government said Russians who were unable to return due to restrictions imposed by countries they are in should take measures to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decree also called on the finance ministry to allocate funds to repatriate Russians, adding that returnees would be subject to health checks and a two-week quarantine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia, which has reported 658 cases of the coronavirus and announced two COVID-19 related deaths Wednesday, already closed its borders to foreigners last week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in March, Russia limited flights to and from the European Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia will halt all international flights from midnight on Friday under a government decree listing new measures against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intv.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}