EFFECT ON AFRICAN COUNTRIES 329 demand for international travel has been significantly reduced. In his opinion, airlines should redeploy their aircraft onto inter-African routes not affected by the pandemic. However, that relies on no African countries having a widespread outbreak. One of the major factors affecting Africa, aside from its Far East connections, will be the prevalence of the disease in its own nations. As we have seen with other outbreak epicentres, a high penetration of confirmed cases could lead other countries to shut their borders to African carriers. At the time of writing, the worst-hit countries are Egypt with, Algeria and South Africa. Other nations with cases include Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, DRC, Tunisia and Morocco. 3. WHAT EFFECT DOES THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAVE IN CAPE VERDE? 3.1. In the Aviation Sector According to the Cape Verdean Government’s instructions aiming to improve appropriated infection prevention and to mitigate the COVID-19 spread, all flights Between Cape Verde and Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Slovakia, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, UK, Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, USA, Brazil, are forbidden, except cargo, repatriation flights, hospital, humanitarian, medical evacuation, technical emergency stopovers and sanitary purposes. The airlines of the countries affected by the NOTAM number A0048/20 are authorised to operate in Cape Verde for repatriation of their citizens concerned. Flight to Cape Verde will be ferry and crew members must remain on board and stopovers shortened. Previously, back February, in order to prevent the introduction or dissemination of infections caused by the coronavirus disease, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cape Verde had suspended all flights from Italy trough the Official Bulletin Nº 35/2020 of 27 February. As it happens all around the world, there are no national or international flights, and planes are on the ground. Recently, the Cape Verde Air Company published that will not start operation, at least, before July, of course also depending on the progress of the pandemic worldwide.
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