Russia increases weekly Cairo-Moscow flights to 5: TASS

CAIRO – 16 January 2021: The Russian anti-coronavirus crisis 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.