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According to the BNS, 48 adults and five children under the age of two will fly on the airBaltic flight to a neighboring country.
The compatriots will be taken from Riga to Lithuania in two buses.
“The list of returnees includes people with health problems, minors, people going to a dying family or a funeral, families with children who say they have nowhere to live in the UK,” Chancellor Gabriel Landsberg said in a comment to BNS.
“Lithuania has filled all the seats assigned to it on this humanitarian flight,” he added.
Arrivals from the UK must be isolated for ten days or have had no more than 48 hours. negative result of a coronavirus test.
Lithuania has filled all the seats assigned to it on this humanitarian flight.
Research can also be carried out in Lithuania. In this case, the isolation is applied until a negative result is obtained.
The plane will depart London Gatwick Airport at 5.30pm local time, it plans to land in Riga after 10pm local time.
According to the minister, the flight is paid, the price was set by the airline. Those who return by bus will not have to pay for the trip, the costs will be covered by the Ministry of Transport.
“Help has been offered to all citizens in cases of extreme urgency. The employees of the Lithuanian Embassy in London and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have done a great job during this festive period to help the people of Lithuania who are in serious trouble, ”commented G. Landsbergis.
After Christmas, the Baltic Foreign Ministers are scheduled to start talks on resuming commercial flights with the UK from 1 January.
From last Monday morning until the end of the year, a ban on the arrival of passenger aircraft from the United Kingdom came into force due to the spread of the coronavirus strain in Lithuania.
Cargo flights are not suspended.
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