Russia anno-unced plans to restrict access to people arriving from Iran on Friday, as it moves to ensure the population's safety and thwart the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The Federal Security Service will be "temporarily halting passage through the Russian border of foreign citizens... arriving from Iran" to work study or travel in Russia, a government decree said.
The measures which start at midnight (2100 GMT Friday) aim at "stopping the spread of the new coronavirus infection on Russian territory" and protect public health, it said.
The new rules exclude people with permanent residency in Russia, nationals of countries in the Moscow-led Eurasian economic union, which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as members of official delegations and plane crews, it said.
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