Christian Querouix, a 69-year-old pensioner, who shares his time between France and Russia, had a difficult choice to make.
Should he return to France, one of the European countries most affected by the coronavirus, or stay in Russia where the number of infected people is growing by the day?"I have diabetes and I am running out of my meds," Querouix told AFP at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport ahead of his repatriation flight amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Most of the passengers of the plane chartered by Air France were French but also included Swiss, Belgians, Germans and Britons."There is also a family with a little boy who has serious eye disease and will undergo surgery in Lausanne," French ambassador Pierre Levy said at the airport. Russia has reported more than 4,700 coronavirus cases and 43 fatalities but officials say the actual number of the infected could be higher.
Authorities earlier had said they will no longer bring home thousands of Russians trapped abroad due to the suspension of flights.
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