Dubai issues new travel guidelines for residents, visitors and Emiratis

Dubai issues new travel guidelines for residents, visitors and Emiratis

Dubai's Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management has updated the travel protocols for all residents, Emiratis, tourists and transit passengers travelling into and out of the emirate.

The committee issued the new guidelines under the directives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Friday.

It said that the amended protocols aim to ease hassles for passengers and exempt citizens from additional procedures without compromising the prescribed precautionary measures outlined by the Dubai Health Authority as well as the Covid-19 Command and Control Centre.

Arrival protocols state that citizens are not required to conduct a PCR test prior to departure regardless of the destination they come from or time spent there. Citizens will only be required to undergo a