The Saudi Ministry of Interior on Saturday announced easing the recently adopted coronavirus restrictions, including the suspension of international flights to and from airports across the Kingdom and the sealing of land and seaports. The air, land, and seaports will reopen as from 11:00 am. (local time) today, Sunday, with specific safety measures being in place, a senior official of the ministry said in a press release late tonight.
The tightened restrictions, stipulated in two statements over the last two weeks, were part of precautions against the spread in several countries of a variant of the novel coronavirus (Covid19), the source noted.
The Saudi health authorities decided that any non-Saudi national willing to travel to the Kingdom from the United Kingdom and the Republic of South Africa has to spend at least two weeks in a third country considered safer from the mutated virus. Those travelers need to get a PCR test proving they are free of the illness at most 48 hours before entering into the Kingdom, the source made clear.
On December 20, the Saudi authorities suspended all flights to and from the airports and sealed the land and sea ports for a week and extended the suspension for another week.
Source-KUNA
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