Posted July 12, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court announced on Friday that Eid Al Adha will be celebrated on Tuesday, July 20, after the crescent of Dhu Al Hijja was not sighted on Friday evening. Dul Hijjah, which this year begins on July 11, is the month during which the Hajj pilgrimage takes place and is the last month…
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Posted July 5, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

Saudi Arabia has announced it will be barring its citizens from direct or indirect travel to the UAE, Ethiopia, and Vietnam without obtaining prior permission, according to a statement from the Kingdom’s interior ministry. In other news, Saudi Arabia is uniquely equipped to be a regional hub for producing COVID-19 vaccines, the King Salman Humanitarian…
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Posted June 28, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) will start inoculating young people aged 12 to 18 against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine following the approval of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA). In other news, Saudi Arabia’s National Scientific Committee for Infectious Diseases has given its approval for using different COVID-19 vaccines for the first…
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Posted June 21, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Thursday that a high COVID-19 immunization rate had been achieved among members of the Kingdom’s population aged 60 years and over. MOH will resume scheduling appointments for second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, starting from July. In other news, all foreigners travelling to Saudi Arabia must register their coronavirus…
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Posted June 17, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

On the 29th May 2021 the Saudi authorities announced that flights from 11 countries would resume subject to a set of updated restrictions and requirements. There remains a ‘red list’ (paragraph 17) of countries from which direct travel to the Kingdom is not permitted. Travellers from red list countries must spend at least 14 days…
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Posted June 14, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

The Tawakkalna application is now available globally and its services can be accessed in 75 countries, representing the first phase of the countries in which the application is operational. In other news, Saudi Arabia will automatically renew the validity of residence permits (Iqama), exit and re-entry visas of expats stranded abroad until July 31, 2021,…
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Posted June 7, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) stated that travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) do not need to quarantine upon arrival in Saudi Arabia, but they must have vaccination certificates that have been attested by authorities in their home country. In other news, the categories of people exempt from workplace…
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Posted May 31, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

Saudi Arabia is lifting a ban on travelers arriving from 11 countries that it imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Saudi state news agency said on Saturday, but will still require quarantine procedures. In other news, the second dose of coronavirus vaccine is available for people over the age of 60 and above…
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Posted May 24, 2021 by Aqsa Asif

Ministry of Health (MOH) statement came in response to a query about the importance of receiving a second jab. The authorities added that there are four approved vaccines in the Kingdom: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna. In other news, MOH has denied cancellation of the second dose anti-COVID-19 vaccine. The Priority service has…
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