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Added on the 01/10/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Cape Town (South Africa), Sep 23 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Nic Bothma) South African Airways airline resumed its flights after the bankruptcy it suffered in March 2020. The South African government rescued the airline with more of 426 million euros and restructured its debt once the company emerged from bankruptcy after cutting hundreds of jobs and selling a 51 percent stake of its business to the Takatso Consortium investor group.FOOTAGE OF THE FIRST FLIGHTS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS AIRLINE AT THE CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER THE BANKRUPTCY PROCESSES IT UNDERTAKEN IN MARCH 2020.
South Africa will close the twenty remaining open land border posts with neighbouring countries for general entries and departures until February 15 to stem the spread of the coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa says on a nationally televised address. SOUNDBITE
Johannesburg (South Africa), Dec 21 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Kim Ludbrook).- Several countries across the world on Monday suspended air travel to the United Kingdom in the wake of a rapidly spreading mutant variant of the coronavirus detected in Britain.Switzerland has also included South Africa in its flight ban announcement along with the UK, and ordered those who have arrived from these countries since Dec. 14 to undergo a 10-day mandatory quarantine.FOOTAGE OF JOHANNESBURG- OR TAMBO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
San Salvador, Sep 20 (EFE), (Camera: Vladimir Chicas).- The Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in El Salvador restarted commercial flight operations on Saturday as part of its gradual reopening after more than 6 months of closure due to the pandemic.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT OF SAN SALVADOR.SOUNDBITES OF FEDERICO ANLIKER, PRESIDENT OF THE AUTONOMOUS EXECUTIVE PORT COMMISSION (CEPA):"Six months ago we took a difficult but necessary decision to protect the health of all Salvadorans. We were severely criticised, they even called us alarmist."
'Love Island' host Laura Whitmore insists she is not unnecessarily adding to the world's carbon footprint by flying back and forth from London to South Africa for the ITV2 reality dating show.