UAE relaxes foreign travel guidelines for citizens, residents

UAE relaxes foreign travel guidelines for citizens, residents

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There is good news from the rulers of the UAE as the UAE has relaxed its foreign travel guidelines, allowing citizens and residents to travel to all accessible destinations for 'general' reasons provided they adhere to all mandatory precautions and safety measures imposed to counter the spread of Covid-19.

Now UAE citizens and residents are allowed to travel abroad according to the effective precautionary measures in the UAE airports and fulfilling the requirements of destination countries, according to media reports.

Citizens and residents can now travel to the countries where the national carriers are operating flights to provided they adhere to precautionary measures specified by the competent health authorities in the state when returning.

In a joint statement, the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) said that UAE citizens and residents will now be able to travel to destinations where the national carriers are operating flights to according to a classification adopted based on a methodology followed in distributing countries based on several health criteria.

The statement made it clear that the health protocols of travel will be applied in the country's airports under the