Saudi Arabia bans travel from 16 countries including India as a precautionary step against the Covid 4th wave.
As COVID-19 cases recur around the world, Saudi Arabia has banned the travel of its citizens to 16 countries, including India. Weekly data showed a fivefold increase in COVID cases in Arab countries compared to those reported in March and April. More than 400 cases were diagnosed last week, the report said, of which 81 were in critical condition.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Ministry of Health has reassured the public that not a single case of monkeypox has been confirmed in the country. Deputy Health and Prevention Minister Abdullah Asiri said the kingdom is in a position to monitor and detect suspected cases of monkeypox and fight the infection if new cases arise.
The 16 countries that Saudi Arabian nationals cannot enter other than India are Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, and Venezuela, according to Gulf News.
Turkey is included in the list of countries where Saudi Arabian citizens are prohibited from entering. Turkey’s Ministry of Health recorded 1,264 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday after around 138,000 tests were conducted across the country.
Earlier this month, Saudi Airways resumed commercial flights to Istanbul, which had been suspended for nearly two years due to restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19.
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said there were 2,226 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
With this, the total number of cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 has risen to 43,136,371 (14,955 active confirmed cases). Active cases accounted for 0.03% of all cases.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of omicron waves. Danger”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the United Nations Health Organization, told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO annual meeting: “The absence of testing and sequencing means that we are turning our eyes to the evolution of the virus. Meaning,” he said. People in low-income countries are still not vaccinated.
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