For the past six days, Ayomuddin Kamolov has slept on the tiled floor of a Moscow airport, hoping to get a flight to his native Tajikistan.

He is one of hundreds of Central Asian migrant workers stranded in the Russian capital’s airports after borders were sealed and flights grounded to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

“My flight was cancelled and the company promised me a hotel. But in the end I got nothing,” Kamolov told AFP in a busy terminal at Vnukovo, one of the three main airports serving Moscow.