Saudi Arabia lifts quarantine requirement for COVID vaccinated foreign visitors – Reuters
- Date: 17-May-2021
- Source: Reuters
- Sector:Healthcare
- Country:Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia lifts quarantine requirement for COVID vaccinated foreign visitors – Reuters
Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that foreign visitors arriving by air from most countries will no longer need to quarantine if they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Visitors from 20 other countries - including the United States, India, Britain, Germany, France and the United Arab Emirates - remain banned from entering the kingdom, however, under measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The civil aviation authority (GACA) said that from May 20 non-Saudi visitors arriving in the kingdom from eligible countries by air who are fully vaccinated, or have had COVID-19 and recovered, will no longer have to spend seven days in government-approved hotels as long as they provide an official vaccination certificate upon arrival.