Myanmar will ban all international passenger flights into its airports beginning Monday as part of the country’s efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic.

Civil aviation authority on Sunday said no international commercial passenger flights will be allowed to land in Myanmar for next two weeks, until April 31.

The Department of Civil Aviation said in a statement that it also suspends all landing permissions it previously granted.

The measure will not apply to relief, cargo, medical evacuation flights as well as specially-approved flights, it added.

The move came shortly after Myanmar suspended issuing all kinds of entry visas till the end of April except to diplomats, UN officials and crews of ships and aircraft operating to and from Myanmar.

xandreu wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:56 pm This might seem like the dumbest question on earth, but considering the entire world is now infected, what exactly is the point in countries closing borders?

404FreedomNotFound wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:12 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:56 pm This might seem like the dumbest question on earth, but considering the entire world is now infected, what exactly is the point in countries closing borders?

It's not about getting rid of the virus, but about slowing it's spread to make it more manageable. Not all region and all country are at the same stage of the epidemic, different countries have different mutated strain of the virus which can make foreign covid-19 more dangerous than your own but also might make you less immune against it. Without taking into account different type of strains, every single pandemic computer spread simulation still shows a deep decrease in world-wide case when reducing long distance travel even after every country has had multiple cases.