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UAE lifts ban for transit travellers from India, five more countries

Alongside with India, the ban has been lifted for Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria and Uganda.

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Updated: Aug 3, 2021, 09: 45 PM IST

With the reduction in COVID-19 cases, the United Arab of Emirates (UAE) has lifted the ban for transit travellers for six countries including India, travelling from and to UAE.

Alongside with India, the ban has been lifted for Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Nigeria and Uganda.

In a tweet, UAE’s National Emergency and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) said: “These categories contain those with unswerving residency permits who dangle received rotund vaccination doses in the UAE and 14 days dangle passed since receiving the 2d dose and who dangle vaccination certificates approved by the unswerving authorities in the nation.”

Extra NCEMA clarifies the cases wherein categories are entitled.

“Clinical personnel working in the nation will most seemingly be excluded, including doctors, nurses, technicians from the vaccinated and non-vaccinated, and folks working in the educational sector in the nation who pronounce in universities, colleges, schools and institutes from the vaccinated and non-vaccinated categories,” NCEMA tweet be taught.

UAE is a main transit hub for travellers because it connects the US, Europe and African countries but as a result of COVID pandemic, it became suspended for several months.

NCEMA is the nodal company in the UAE which takes care of the COVID linked relaxations in case of crawl from other countries and informs the passengers in regards to the crawl criteria.

“All these categories will most seemingly be required to publish a requirement on the accumulate self-discipline of the Federal Authority for Identification and Citizenship to salvage the needed approvals along with vaccination certificates licensed by the concerned authorities in the nation for the categories from which these certificates are required,” the NCEMA said.

Run will resume for transit passengers from all countries from which transit passengers were previously stopped, on condition that the traveller’s closing crawl space is accredited and a laboratory examination is submitted within 72 hours from the time of departure, and the nation’s airports will allocate particular lounges for transit passengers.

(With ANI inputs)

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