KUWAIT RESTARTS FLIGHTS WITH NINE AFRICAN COUNTRIES

  • 18/01/2022

Kuwait City: The Kuwaiti cabinet agreed on Monday to resume commercial flights with nine African countries, which had been suspended due to the introduction of the coronavirus Omicron type. Dr. Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Foreign Minister, said in a statement following today's cabinet regular meeting that the government has instructed relevant state bodies to resume commercial flights with South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zambia, and Malawi. The cabinet emphasised that all necessary preventive measures established by the coronavirus emergency committee must be properly followed, according to the minister. 


Kuwait stopped flights to the nine African nations where the Omicron type was discovered on November 28. Dr. Sheikh Ahmad Nasser stated that the government has relaxed quarantine restrictions for vaccinated visitors to Kuwait. According to the ministry, as of Tuesday, January 18, vaccinated immigrants might avoid the seven-day quarantine if they performed a PCR test upon entering the country and the result was negative. The cabinet also advised citizens and residents to follow all coronavirus prevention measures and not be afraid to get a booster dose of the vaccination to help limit the virus's spread.

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