Air Cairo is set to operate three flights per week on the same route.

Borg El Arab Airport also received a Wizz Air flight carrying 180 passengers from Milan.

The airline is scheduled to operate three flights per week on the route.

Over the past weeks, Cairo, Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada airports have receives thousands of tourists aboard international flights following a long hiatus due to the fear of spread of Coronavirus. 

Earlier in September, the Russian government announced resuming flights with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Maldives, after suspension over the spread of the novel virus, Reuters reported.

A government order published on Thursday showed that the Russian government said it had authorized three flights a week to Cairo, as well as two flights a week to Dubai and to the Maldives’s Velana International Airport.