Russia confirmed 3 388 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 24 490 and marking the latest one-day record in new cases.

Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and prevent its spread within the country.

Some EU countries are preparing in April to resume accepting applications for Schengen visa. In April, visa centers of Greece, the UK, Italy and the Netherlands are preparing to resume working.

Only one tour operator left the market in Russia amid collapse in the tourism industry due to coronavirus.

President Putin extended in Russia the non-working days and self-isolation rules till April 30.

Russia has stepped up its measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and prevent its spread within the country.

The Belarusian Railway has temporarily canceled train connections to Moscow and St. Petersburg from April 5 due to the closure of the Russian border due to the situation with the coronavirus.

To date, the vast majority of Russian tourists who were abroad through tour operators have returned to the territory of the Russian Federation. Over the past two weeks, about 160 000 organized tourists from 43 countries of the world returned to the country.

Passenger traffic in Russian airports decreased by 75% in March compared to the same month last year.

Two leading tour operators, Coral Travel and Sunmar, have fulfilled the recommendation of the Federal Tourism Agency and stopped the tours with departure dates from March 23 to April 20.

The Russian government is mulling a complete ban on domestic travel, both by air and rail, in the face of the COVID-19 threat.

Current situation in Russia

The low-cost division of Russia’s Aeroflot Group, Pobeda Airlines has completely suspended its operations from April 1 to May 31.

The total spending of Russians for foreign travels in the summer of 2019 amounted to 1,501 billion Euros and in the New Year period (from December 15, 2019 to January 15, 2020) – 640 million Euros.

Тhe Russian government suspended all regular and charter flights on March 27, except for flights aimed at bringing Russians home.

The ban does not apply on repatriation, freight, postal, sanitary and humanitarian transportation.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin: from March 28 all health resorts and public catering to suspend operation

Russia further restricted transport access on Sunday, banning a large amount of flights to and from foreign destinations. The move largely affects routes to secondary cities and holiday resorts, with most capital cities exempt.

The Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic and the Federal Agency for Tourism will be developing cruise tourism in Russia’s Far Eastern and Arctic maritime regions, and the two institutions are already working on a list of laws needed for this.

To prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Moscow, the Mayor introduced additional measures In Moscow

The plan developed by the authorities is divided into four units. This is support and provision of basic necessities of the population; support of especially negative affected economic sectors; support of small and medium-sized businesses; system-wide measures. An anti-crisis fund of 3 billion euro was created to implement the support plan.

Hundreds of Russian tourists in Europe have found themselves stranded in foreign airports after most flights were canceled this week and borders closed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on March 5 signed a decree "On the introduction of a high alert mode" in connection with the threat of the spread of coronavirus.

Russian state-run air carrier Aeroflot announced on Saturday changes to flights to and from European destinations after EU countries began imposing travel restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus.