COVID-19: Travel ideas of NRIs be fallible as Kuwait suspends flights
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The travel plans of scores of NRIs hailing from both Telugu States were disrupted as Kuwait suspended all incoming and outgoing flights from India plus some additional countries effective Saturday.
The Kuwait government, late on Friday night, made a decision to suspend all flights for weekly with immediate effect to and from India besides Bangladesh, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Syria and Egypt in a bid to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Kuwait bound passengers who exactly reached RGIA at Shamshabad on Saturday had to come back home. “I was likely to fly to Kuwait and reached airport terminal but came to understand that flights were cancelled, therefore i am returning residence,” Kuwait-centered NRI Mohammed Abdul Rauf, a native of Jagitial, advised Telangana Today over phone.
“Amid confusion, We cancelled my happen to be India two days before,” said Mohammed Imran, a long time NRI in Kuwait. He was routine to travel to Hyderabad on Sunday together with his family for vacation. Several NRIs who will be in India for vacations, are stranded and some of them may face significant re-entry visa issue, according to sources.
All arrivals on Kuwait from any different nationality or via airports apart from the mentioned countries will get denied entry if indeed they travelled to these countries within the last couple of weeks whether or not they have valid residency or visas.
Only Kuwaiti nationals surviving in these countries will be allowed in immediately after undergoing the necessary quarantine measures, the statement read.
It is believed that the one-week suspension is targeted at putting found in place all of the required facilities at Kuwait Airport to display screen all incoming travellers from abroad.
Earlier, Kuwait had announced that incoming travellers from India necessary to submit coronavirus totally free medical certificate issued simply by medical facilities approved by Kuwait embassy in India. However, your choice was cancelled before execution.
Source: https://telanganatoday.com