Russian which closed his border to international flight in March to stem the rise of corovirus has declared on Sunday that all foreign athletes hitherto competing in Russian can now return.
“The decision will help professional sports organisations, including the soccer clubs in the Russian Premier League, to resume training after the easing of measures linked to the spread of the coronavirus,” the government said in a statement.
Although the government said athletes and coaches under contract with a Russian sports organisation would be put under medical observation and obliged to spend two weeks in quarantine upon their return to the country.
