Saudi Arabia Bans Travel To India, 15 Other Countries Over Covid Outbreaks
Following the re-outbreak of Covid-19 and the speedy surge withinside the wide variety of each day Covid infections during the last few weeks, Saudi Arabia has banned its residents from journeying to 16 nations, inclusive of India.
The 16 nations in which the residents of Saudi Arabia are banned to tour aside from India encompass Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, and Venezuela, stated Gulf News.
Further, the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has confident the general public that 0 monkeypox instances had been detected withinside the country. Abdullah Asiri, Deputy Minister of Health for preventive fitness has stated that the Kingdom has the functionality to screen and find out any suspected monkeypox instances and additionally to combat in opposition to the contamination if any new case emerges.
“Until now, instances of transmission among human beings are very limited, and consequently the opportunity of any outbreaks going on from it, even in nations which have detected instances, are very low,” he added.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has showed eighty instances of monkeypox in eleven nations and stated they’re operating to higher recognize the quantity and motive of the outbreak.
In a assertion issued on Friday, the WHO stated the virus is endemic in a few animal populations in some of nations, main to occasional outbreaks amongst nearby humans and travelers.
