Azerbaijan repatriates 175 citizens from Russia

Azerbaijan has evacuated 175 more citizens stranded in Russia on a charter flight from Moscow, which departed at 01:50 pm Baku time, Report’s local bureau says.

The government is taking relevant measures to bring back Azerbaijani nationals stuck abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Azerbaijani citizens living in Russia, who were registered on the evegedirem.info website to return homeland, will get information in advance by a phone call or SMS notification about the date of their evacuation.

There have been 370,680 cases of coronavirus infections reported in Russia so far and 3,968 deaths. The country confirmed 8,338 new coronavirus infections Wednesday.