Saudi authorities will allow outbound flights with foreign nationals to resume after being temporarily suspended due to a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus, state television announced Sunday.
Under the new conditions, any country that has the more contagious tension will continue to be restricted, and crew members on flights landing in Saudi Arabia will be restricted to the plane, according to Bloomberg.
Last week, the kingdom announced that all international flights would be suspended due to the new variant first detected in the south east of England. The ban would last a week with the option to extend it if necessary.
Saudi Arabia has officially reported just over 361,000 cases of the virus, and official numbers have not shown a second wave of the virus like that of many other countries, including Europe and many of the U.S. official disease control and extermination centers. prevention guidelines Americans against traveling to the country.
Several countries have responded to the new variant by banning flights from the UK. The US was not yet among them on Sunday, and Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciRubio criticizes Fauci for raising herd immunity estimate to 90 percent. Novavax launches Phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 vaccine Fauci: various reactions a ‘major weakness’ in coronavirus control MORE, the US top expert in the field of infectious diseases, said that such a move could be an “overreaction” and said that the tension is probably already in the country. Public health experts have said that the strain does not appear to be more lethal and that there is no reason to believe that vaccines will not be effective against it.