Around 60 foreigners who were quarantined for weeks in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have finally left the country.
The Air Koryo flight to Vladivostok is the first commercial flight to leave North Korea in over a month, said specialist news site NK News.
Flight KOR271 landed in the far-eastern Russian city on Monday morning.
The embassy staff who left had been confined to their compounds for weeks during February and early March.
North Korea quarantined hundreds of foreigners in the capital in an attempt to stop the coronavirus from breaking out.
