CAIRO: In view of the rising COVID-19 instances within the nation, the Government of Kuwait has now suspended commercial flights from India.
Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation stated in a tweet on Saturday that it had suspended all direct commercial flights coming from India, efficient April 24 and till additional discover, based on Reuters.
الطيران المدني : منع الرحلات التجارية المباشرة القادمة من الهند اعتبارا من السبت الموافق 2021/4/24 حتى اشعار آخر . pic.twitter.com/lJuhqo0ypS
— الطيران المدني (@Kuwait_DGCA) April 23, 2021
The transfer was on the directions of well being authorities after an analysis of the worldwide coronavirus standing. All passengers arriving from India both straight or through one other nation shall be banned from getting into until they’ve spent not less than 14 days out of India, the assertion stated.
Kuwaiti residents, their first-degree kin and their home employees shall be allowed to enter. Cargo is unaffected.
It could also be famous that the governments of UAE and Canada have earlier introduced to ban flights from Indian amid the worsening COVID-19 state of affairs within the nation. According to reviews, the UAE banned journey from India for 10 days from Sunday as a result of worsening COVID-19 state of affairs within the nation.
The UAE journey ban got here into impact from 11.59 PM on Saturday, April 24, and will probably be topic to evaluation after 10 days, the Gulf News reported. Passengers who’ve transited by way of India within the final 14 days are additionally not permitted to board from another level to the UAE, the report stated.
However, departure flights will proceed to function, it added. UAE residents, diplomatic passport holders and official delegations are exempted from the above situations, it stated.
According to Khaleej Times, individuals are barred from reserving flights from the UAE to Indian locations after April 24 on the Emirates, Etihad, FlyDubai and Air Arabia web sites.
The UAE is the most recent nation to impose a journey ban on passengers from India after it recorded the world’s highest every day tally of 314,835 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Canada additionally stated that it could ban all flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days as a result of rising wave of COVID-19 instances in that area.
