Russia from December 19 will ban the entry of foreign citizens arriving from Kenya, the federal operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus said. In addition, Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Transport must provide rapid testing for COVID-19 for Russians arriving from Kenya.
“To ensure the sanitary and epidemiological protection of the population in the context of the spread of COVID-19, the operational headquarters decided from 00:00 Moscow time on December 19, 2021: to restrict the entry of foreign citizens living in Kenya and foreign citizens in the specified territory within the last 14 days “, – quotes” RIA Novosti “message of the headquarters.
The Ministry of Transport of Russia has been instructed to “ensure that airlines unconditionally comply with the requirements for checking whether foreign citizens and stateless persons have a medical document (in Russian or English) confirming a negative result when boarding an aircraft performing international transportation on the way to a destination in Russia. laboratory study of material for COVID-19 by PCR method, selected no earlier than two calendar days before arrival in Russia. “
Kenya is a state in East Africa. A new strain of the omicron coronavirus was previously discovered in African countries. In Russia, at the moment, 25 cases of infection with this variant have already been recorded.
According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 260 thousand coronavirus patients have been recorded in Kenya since the beginning of the pandemic, and 5353 people with COVID-19 have died.
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