Passengers with residence permits can still enter Bahrain according to latest travel advisory | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Passengers with residence permits can still enter Bahrain according to latest travel advisory | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

People have been widely misinterpreting the recent travel advisory issued by Bahrain for passengers arriving from countries on the Red List. According to Bahrain's Civil Aviation Affairs, only Bahraini citizens and people with a valid Bahrain residency visa will be allowed on flights from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal from yesterday (May 24). They must also present an approved negative PCR result with a QR code administered within 48 hours from the scheduled departure and quarantine for 10 days upon the arrival. However stopover passengers from these countries, whose final destination is not the Kingdom of Bahrain, and visit visa holders will not be allowed to board a flight to Bahrain. This is based on the recommendations of the National Medical Taskforce for Combatting the Coronavirus (COVID-19). However, since this travel advisory was issued, news has been spreading that all flights from these countries have been temporarily stopped, which is not true. The confusion is supposed to have happened after an Arabic write up of the travel advisory was Google translated apparently saying that flights from the Asian countries have been suspended altogether, creating unnecessary panic among expatriates with valid Bahrain residency visas and are now in their