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Cuba's Havana Int'l airport is to re-open to regular commercial flights on November 15 after being closed for seven and a half months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Cuban state-run media citing Cuba's civil aviation authority (Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba - IACC).

Reuters reports the move comes on time for what is traditionally the Caribbean island nation's high tourist season from November to March, although the pandemic was expected to reduce the flow of visitors. Authorities will test all international travellers for COVID-19 on arrival, state-run media said, and would levy a sanitary tariff in order to cover the extra costs of new hygiene protocols.

Cuba officially reopened for international tourism on July 1, 2020, in a phased approach, starting with certain tourist cities, and gradually opened more from October. Varadero reopened on October 15 and Holguin on November 3, 2020.

State-run airline Cubana (CU, Havana Int'l) resumed weekly flights between Santiago de Cuba and Madrid Barajas on November 10 using an A340-300 leased from...

Cubana resumes domestic operations