Minister of Health Sheikh Dr. Basel Humoud Al-Sabah held a meeting on Thursday with officials at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, following up on the plan to re-operate commercial flights via Kuwait International Airport in August.
The rapporteur of the higher committee tasked with resuming these flights, Saad Al-Otaibi, said in a statement to KUNA after the meeting that the participants in the session examined final phases of implementing the health precautions, in line with a Cabinet resolution in this regard.
The commission, during the session chaired by the department chairman Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, examined the guidelines for resuming the commercial flights, in the shadow of the coronavirus issue. The committee briefed the ministers about preparations, done over the past days, at the airport buildings and terminals for resuming the commercial flights with the required health precautions for outgoing travelers and arrivals.