Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 23: Saudi Arabia has banned its people from going to sixteen countries, including India, following the re-emergence of Covid-19 and the rapid increase in the number of daily Covid infections over the past few weeks.
Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Indonesia, Vietnam, Armenia, Belarus, and Venezuela are among the sixteen countries that Saudi Arabian residents are prohibited from travelling to, according to Gulf News.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has assured the public that no cases of monkeypox have been identified in the nation. According to Abdullah Asiri, the Kingdom’s Deputy Minister of Health for Preventive Health, the Kingdom has the ability to monitor and detect any potential monkeypox cases, as well as fight the virus if a new case occurs.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 80 cases of monkeypox in 11 countries and is seeking to better understand the outbreak’s scope and source.
The WHO stated in a statement on Friday that the virus is prevalent in some animal populations in a number of nations, causing outbreaks among locals and visitors on occasion.
