RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has lifted the temporary travel ban imposed last December as a precautionary measure following the detection of a mutated type of Covid-19 in a lot of nations, the Ministry of Interior stated early Sunday.
Entry into the Kingdom by air, land, and sea will resume at 11 a.m. Sunday, the ministry stated in a press release carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Some restrictions together with asking non-Saudis coming from the UK, South Africa, and different nations where the Covid-19 variant had been detected, to stay at least 14 days out of these nations before coming into the Kingdom.
Saudi residents who’re allowed to enter for humanitarian and important cases, coming from nations the place the new Covid-19 variant spread, are required to stay in their houses for 14 days for observation.
Cases of the new variant, which was first detected within the UK, have been reported in European nations together with France, Sweden, and Spain. It has also been detected in South Africa, Jordan, Canada, and Japan.
Saudi Arabia has begun rolling out vaccines against COVID-19, beginning with those considered high risk.
The Kingdom has also seen a steady decline in the number of new cases and deaths from the pandemic.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health recorded only 101 new cases, the lowest quantity in 9 months, with two areas reporting zero cases.
A total of 362,488 individuals have contracted the disease within the Kingdom since Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
Of the overall number of cases, 2,772 remain active and 401 in critical condition.
The overall number of deaths as of January 1 is 6,230.
