ENTRY OF KUWAIT VISITORS HALTED

  • 09/06/2022

Kuwait City: As the country gradually lowers its COVID-19 border controls, Japan will reopen its borders to international travellers on Friday after prohibiting them for more than two years. Japan will first admit travellers on guided tours with fixed itineraries from the 98 low-risk nations and areas, including the United States and China, under a plan unveiled by the government in May. Even if they are unvaccinated, tourists from such areas will be free from virus testing and self-quarantine.


 Kuwaiti tourists will be denied access, but the administration hopes to gradually expand the scope of foreign visitors if there are no major issues. Kuwait is classified as a middle-risk yellow country by Japan, which divides countries and areas into three categories: blue, yellow, and red. Kuwaiti business travellers, technical interns, and students are still permitted to go to Japan. 

Visitors in the "yellow" group must take virus tests upon arrival and self-quarantine for three days at home, although both criteria are eliminated if they have received three rounds of COVID-19 vaccine.

Late May, Japan began a trial of small group tours for travel industry personnel from the United States, Australia, Singapore, and Thailand in order to assess the impact on the COVID-19 situation. The number of new cases in Japan has remained stable in recent weeks, ranging between 20,000 and 30,000 per day. In February 2020, Japan increased its border controls in reaction to the virus's global spread.

 Then, it effectively imposed an entry ban on all non-resident foreign nationals in November due to concerns over the highly infectious Omicron strain of the virus. “Resuming inbound tourism, which can benefit from the depreciation of the yen, has great significance for Japan’s regional economies,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on May 31.

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