United Arab Emirates

On 23 January, Abu Dhabi International Airport and Dubai International Airport announced that travellers arriving directly from China would have their temperatures screened.

On 29 January, the first case in the United Arab Emirates was confirmed in a Chinese national who came to the country on vacation with their family from Wuhan. The family of four, mother, father, nine-year-old girl and grandmother, arrived in the Emirates on 16 January and took the grandmother to a doctor with flu-like symptoms on 23 January, where it was discovered that the family was infected with the virus. The announcement led to a sell out of face masks across the UAE.

On 31 January, the fifth case of coronavirus in the UAE was confirmed, in someone who had travelled from Wuhan to Dubai.

Emirates flies charters to Russia

31st March 2020 Isaan Live 0

DUBAI, UAE, 23 March 2020 – Due to the temporary suspension
of air services between Russia and UAE, Emirates has temporarily suspended its
operations to Russia until 30 June 2020.

To facilitate the return of travellers whose journeys were
disrupted, Emirates will operate charter flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg
through to 29 March.

Only Russian nationals will be allowed to travel on these
special flights from Dubai to Moscow and St. Petersburg and the return Emirates
flights will only be open to non-Russian nationals.

Flight schedules up to 29 March:

Dubai
to Moscow: EK133
departs at 9:15hrs and arrives at 13:45hrs.Moscow
to Dubai: EK134
departs at 17:00hrs and arrives at 23:15hrs.

Applicable up to 25 March and 27 to 29 March 2020:

Dubai
to St. Petersburg:
EK 175 departs at 15:30hrs and arrives at 20:45hrs.St.
Petersburg to Dubai:
EK 176 departs at 23:25hrs and arrives at 6:35hrs.

Travellers may contact their
travel agents or local Emirates office to book these flights. ht..