Aeroflot To Organize Special Flight From Bali To Evacuate Russians On Sunday - Ministry

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 28th March, 2020) The Russian airline of Aeroflot will organize a special flight from the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday to evacuate Russian citizens amid the pandemic of COVID-19, the Russian Ministry of Transport said on Saturday.

On Thursday, the Russian government tasked the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency with banning all regular and charter international flights starting from Friday, apart from those for bringing Russians back home from abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"To evacuate Russian citizens from Bali, Aeroflot will carry out an additional flight with 457 seats on March 29," the ministry said in a statement.

The flight will be also available for people, who have bought tickets to flights of other airlines.

The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11. To date, more than 590,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with more than 27,000 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The same university reports about 1,046 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Indonesia with 87 fatalities.