BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jun. 2
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan is working on resuming flights to South Korea, China and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Industry and Infrastructural Development Baibut Atamkulov said, Trend reports.
Atamkulov made the statement during a press briefing held on Jun. 2, 2020.
“Recently, the interagency commission held a meeting where it was decided to allow the study of the issue of resuming flights to three countries, i.e. Korea, China and Azerbaijan from Jun. 1. The assessment was based on the COVID-19 epidemiological situation. There is an international rating of countries, the rating of safest countries; a decision was made on it,” Atamkulov said.
He said that the next stage of flights resuming includes countries such as Germany, UAE, Czech Republic and Thailand.
“Perhaps we will get permission to restart flights to Poland and Hungary. This is the second stage which will be worked on after June 15. I am always in contact with my colleagues, recently held talks with the Turkey’s minister of transport. We are interested in opening flights to Antalya after Jun. 20. We will work further on the issue,” he said.
In March 2020, in order to prevent coronavirus spread in Kazakhstan, the number of flights was reduced by 438 flights per week on international destinations on 97 routes, which makes up 99 percent of all international flights implemented.
Additionally, all domestic flights have been cancelled and no regular air services operated in the country over April 2020.
The first two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany on March 13, 2020.
The total number of coronavirus cases confirmed in Kazakhstan since the virus was first confirmed in the country amounted to 10,858 cases. This includes 5,220 people who recovered from the coronavirus, and 38 patients who passed away.
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