Mozambique: Portuguese expat flight leaves Maputo on Saturday – Lusa

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Mozambique: Portuguese expat flight leaves Maputo on Saturday – Lusa

10:28 CAT | 10 Jul 2020

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The Portuguese embassy in Mozambique announced a flight on Saturday for expats affected by the border closure caused by Covid-19 to return to Portugal.

The flight set up by the Portuguese authorities will be made by TAP.

The embassy is confident that it will soon be possible to resume passenger transport on the Lisbon – Maputo route, said a statement, following the announcement made by the Mozambican president to reactivate international flights soon.

Meanwhile, the diplomatic representation said the Portuguese government is fully willing to support the return to Mozambique of citizens and legal residents, under the terms defined for this purpose.

The Portuguese government is open to maintain the possibility of flights between Portugal and Mozambique on a reciprocal basis, within the framework of the exceptions to the closure of airspace currently in force, it said.

The most recent exceptional flight to support the return to Portugal was on 27 June.

Mozambique has suspended international flights since mid-May to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, with only a few connections being authorised on a case-by-case basis.

The Portuguese-language country has a total of 1,111 cases of infection by the new coronavirus, with nine dead and 344 recovered.

In Africa, there are 12,206 confirmed deaths in more than 522,000 infected in 54 countries, according to the most recent pandemic statistics on that continent.

The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed more than 549,000 lives and infected more than 12 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

Source: Lusa