Flights: In light of the recent rise of new COVID-19 infections, Saudi Arabia has imposed travel restrictions on its nationals. Along with 15 other nations, the country has prohibited its citizens from entering India as well.Â
India, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, and Venezuela are the countries to which Saudi Arabia has advised its people to avoid flights travelling.Â
Saturday, the Saudi government’s Directorate General of Passports announced the travel ban. Currently, the limitations apply to Saudi nationals who seek to travel to the aforementioned nations.
However, no new regulations have been released about whether Indian citizens would be prohibited from accessing the Gulf country.
The Saudi Arabian Health Ministry also confirmed that the nation has not yet recorded any instances of monkeypox. Abdullah Asiri, Deputy Minister of Health for Preventive Health, stated, “Up until now, incidences of human-to-human transmission have been extremely rare, therefore the likelihood of outbreaks happening, even in nations where cases have been found, is quite low.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) stated lately that the COVID-19 outbreak is “absolutely not gone.” Although reported instances have decreased following the omicron wave, the pandemic is not yet over. “We relax our guard at our risk,” WHO Director stated.
“Declining testing and sequencing mean we are oblivious to the development of the virus,” he stated. According to Ghebreyesus, about one billion individuals in low-income nations have not yet been vaccinated.
