“Because of the COVID-19 pandemic ... all ongoing missile launch preparations at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana have been suspended. Preparations for the launches will resume as soon as the conditions allow it, ”RIA Novosti quoted the company as saying.
It is clarified that the decision to postpone launches is associated with the protection of “the health of employees and the local population”.
In February, Oleg Kotov, deputy director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Russia, said that due to the spread of coronavirus, doctors are considering the possibility of introducing an extra week of quarantine for the crew, which will go to the International Space Station (ISS) in April.