Europeans can travel back to Madagascar as from Saturday 06 November. The borders that opened recently was restrained to Indian ocean’s countries but will be now fully opened on Saturday. Flights to tourist destinations islands Nosy Be namely from Milan, Italy are set to resume.
This is good news for the tourism sector. The government has decided in the Council of Ministers to reopen the Malagasy air borders to international flights. The return to normal flights is being done in two stages.
From October 23, regional flights from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Reunion, through Air Mauritius and Air Austral respectively, are authorized. Long-haul flights from Europe are scheduled from November 6. Apart from medical evacuations, the arrival of private jets or special flights must be validated by the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic.
Madagascar will be launching also its vaccination campaign with Sinopharm after 90, 000 doses of Jansen had been initially used. Some 700, 000 of Sinopharm is expected to be used. Malagasy people seem reluctant to take the vaccines and the percentage of vaccinated is very low but the country is optimist to make fifty percent of its population take the jab by 2023.
