Saudi Arabia Lifts Covid-19 Travel Restrictions, Allows Its Citizens To Visit India

Saudi Arabia lifted curbs for travelling to these destinations: Turkey, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and India as it eased travel restrictions on its citizens due to Covid-19.

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New Delhi: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior on Monday announced that the kingdom has lifted Covid-19 travel restrictions on its citizens, reported news agency Press Trust of India. The Ministry lifted curbs for travelling to these destinations: Turkey, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and India, the report stated via Al Arabiya. 

The move comes a week after the Kingdom dropped some precautionary Covid-19 measures, including wearing face masks indoors and providing proof of vaccination in order to enter most public places.

Though the Covid-19 protocols in the kingdom have been relaxed, the Ministry of Interior said last week that people will still be required to wear masks in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, places regulated by the Saudi Public Health Authority Weqaya, and places and events that impose their own mask mandates.

As per the report quoting Al Arabiya, The vaccination time frame for Saudi Arabian citizens who want to travel abroad has also been extended. 

Earlier travellers were required to have received their third Covid booster dose within three months of the second, but that time frame has now been extended to eight months.

Coronavirus restrictions in the Kingdom were loosened earlier this year in March when outdoor mask mandates, social distancing measures, PCR tests for inbound travellers, and quarantine-on-arrival rules were dropped.