Due to health and safety reasons, Latvian airline airBaltic has made decision to immediately suspend all flights to/from Milan and Verona until the end of April, the airline told LETA.

Passengers who have bookings for the affected flights will be contacted individually. Following strong recommendations of the Latvian Center for Disease Prevention and Control people are suggested not to travel to the affected areas in Italy, the airline informs.





In line with the preventive measures of the airline the complete disinfection of the aircraft will be finished today.





Meanwhile, Irish lowfare airline Ryanair, which operates direct flights from Riga to the Italian city Bergamo near Milan, has informed that it will reduce the number of flights on this route from March 17.





As reported, a second case of novel coronavirus Covid-19 has been confirmed in Latvia, LETA was told at the Health Ministry.





The woman caught the virus in a town in northern Italy near the Swiss border. She was in Italy with a tourist group from February 29 to March 7.





The woman returned to Latvia on an airBaltic flight from Milan on Saturday. There were a total of 39 passengers on the flight, including 25 from Latvia.