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Two Petersburgers are stuck in Nepal due to pandemia
Petersburgers Zlata Vasiliev and Tamara Asanova cannot fly out of the capital of Nepal Kathmande home. They were in the mountains when they declared a pandemic in the world, and Russia closed the boundaries. Vasilieva spoke about this on Instagram.
The girls flew to Nepal on March 6 to climb Everest. According to Vasilyeva, it was their dream, for which they were preparing for four years. The first two weeks of the girls went to the basic camp, and at that time they almost did not work in touch.
- In the laziness, we did not have to track the situation with coronavirus. When they went down, they found the situation that greatly changed in the world. It turns out that when we were in the mountains, on March 11 they declared a pandemic, and countries began to introduce Lockdown.
Vasilieva says that they flew to the capital of the country one of the last aircraft. According to her, they soon contacted the Russian embassy and registered on the flight home, but the next day they were told about the cancellation of the flight and forbidden to leave the hotel. According to Vasilieva, on March 26 their data was sent to Moscow , but after that almost nothing changed.
According to Vasilyeva, there are 140 Russians in Kathmandu, waiting for departure home, while they pay for accommodation and food on their own.
Earlier, Russia has completely suspended international flights that took Russians from abroad to limit a new wave of firm cases of coronavirus infection. On April 4, the authorities announced that they intend to resume the export of citizens from abroad. On April 6, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that Russia “will never abandon its citizens”, and flights for the Russians who remained abroad will be resumed in the evening.
Actual news about the distribution of Covid-19 in the city read in the section "Papers" " Coronavirus in St. Petersburg ".