Month: October 2020

Kuwait City, 22nd October, 2020: Proposal to lift ban on 34 countries – PCR test 3 times for arrivals To breathe in life in aviation sector, hotels, transportation, restaurants and SMEs this morning board members along with the chairman of Kuwait Airways and Jazeera airways meet with Minister of Health Sheikh Dr. Basil Al-Sabah to discuss proposals made by the two companies to restart air traffic and to receive passengers directly to Kuwait instead of spending their quarantine period of 14 days in countries which are not listed in banned list.The proposal also stated about taking all precautions which includes PCR test and quarantine for a period of one week. The plan is to accept passengers from 34 banned countries directly without spending 14 days in a non banned country, which will be classified into two categories ie. low risk and high risk to adopt special mechanisms to deal with each category. The high risk countries will conduct PCR test for expats 3 times ie…