Flights to Saudi Arabia resume as kingdom finishes non permanent journey ban

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has lifted the short term vacation ban imposed last December as a precautionary measure pursuing the detection of a mutated sort of Covid-19 in a amount of international locations, the Ministry of Inside explained early Sunday.

Entry into the Kingdom by air, land and sea will resume at 11 a.m. Sunday, the ministry reported in a assertion carried by the Saudi Press Company (SPA).

Some limitations including asking non-Saudis coming from the Uk, South Africa, and other international locations where the Covid-19 variant experienced been detected, to remain at the very least 14 days out of these nations ahead of entering the Kingdom.

Saudi citizens who are permitted to enter for humanitarian and critical conditions, coming from nations around the world wherever the new Covid-19 variant unfold, are essential to continue being in their properties for 14 days for observation.

Cases of the new variant, which was initially detected in the Uk, have been claimed in European nations which includes France, Sweden and Spain. It has also been detected in South Africa, Jordan, Canada and Japan.

Saudi Arabia has started out rolling out vaccines in opposition to COVID-19, beginning with these regarded substantial chance.

The Kingdom has also seen a constant decline in the selection of new circumstances and fatalities from the pandemic.

On Saturday, the Ministry of Health and fitness recorded only 101 new conditions, the lowest amount in nine months, with two regions reporting zero cases.

A full of 362,488 men and women have contracted the condition in the Kingdom due to the fact Covid-19 was to start with detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

Of the full quantity of scenarios, 2,772 continue being energetic and 401 in vital issue.

The whole range of deaths as of January 1 is 6,230.