Russia will close its land borders with Poland and Norway to foreigners in a bid to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Saturday.
The ban will come into force at midnight on Saturday and apply to all foreigners traveling “for professional, private, study or tourist reasons”, he said.
He added that Belarusians, members of official delegations and residents of Russia would be excepted.
Russia has a short land border with Poland in the enclave of Kaliningrad and one with far north of Norway, which runs for about 200 kilometers.
Moscow has counted around 45 cases of contamination with COVID-19, but no deaths so far, according to the latest official figures.
On Friday, Russia said it would reduce the number of flights to and from the European Union to stem the spread of the virus.
It has already closed its border with China and limited the number of arrivals from Iran and South Korea.
(c) The Moscow Times
How about closing the land border with Ukraine, to stop the spread of the Russian virus?
Thank God, no Russians on visit to Norway 🙂
Not officially. 😁
Norway is already closed for foreigners, they are turned around at the airport to return with the same plane 🙂 But we still have som Russian visitors, coming with subs in our deep fjords 😉
Someone should start spreading rumours about a massive outbreak on Svalbard. See if the Russians disappear.
The only disease there is all the Russians, no vaccine against it so far 🙂
A bullet is a good vaccine.
They are already in Norway.
Norway just now!
“- We will close our airports and ports from 8am on Monday, and extensive border control will also be introduced.
This is stated by the Prime Minister at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday. Norwegians who are abroad will be allowed to return home.”
Isn’t it just amazing what the smallest life-form can do to our “great” civilization?
Things seem to be going south here fast. Closed borders, public school, professional sports team cancel season. Fights in grocery stores as shelves empty. Apparently, toilet paper will be the currency when things get bad.