Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Etihad Airways and Emirates Airlines announced that they have suspended flights to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman, in light of the discovery of a new strain of Corona virus in Britain.
Dubai-based Emirates Airlines said in a statement on Tuesday that due to the closure of the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Omani borders, Emirates Airlines will suspend its flights to and from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between December 21 and 27, and to and from Kuwait and Oman during the period. Between December 22 and 28.
On Monday, Etihad Airways announced that it will immediately suspend passenger flights between Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman until further notice, as a spokesman for the Abu Dhabi-based company said that “this precautionary measure has been taken to limit the spread of the new Corona virus. “.
Emirates Airlines clarified that passengers connected on flights bound to these destinations will not be accepted.
The Kuwaiti government had decided to suspend flights and close all border crossings, with the exception of shipping operations, starting from Monday evening until the end of next January 1, while Oman banned entry to and exit from the Sultanate for a week, starting from the morning of Tuesday, December 22nd. the first. Likewise, the Saudi authorities have suspended entry flights to the Kingdom through the land and sea ports “temporarily” for a week, “which can be extended for another week.”
Many countries, most of them European, have taken decisions to ban travel to and from Britain and prevent entry to flights coming from the United Kingdom, after the new strain of Corona virus discovered in the capital London and southeast England raised mounting global fears that may cause cities to close again.
