Kuwait City:Authorities at the Kuwait International Airport have submitted a proposal to end the travel ban and enforce a mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine in the nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported.
Saleh Al Fadaghi, the airport's Director of Operations, said that if the proposal was accepted, it would require the coordination of three governmental entities: the General Administration of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Interior, Gulf News reported on Monday.
The new proposal comes after authorities realized that many ex-pats were quarantined for 14 days in neighbouring Gulf countries before coming to Kuwait, which according to the official has posed as an obstacle to many.
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This is not the first proposal that the airport had presented to the government.
Last month, a similar proposal was submitted that called on the government to allow travellers arriving from the 34 banned countries to quarantine in facilities in Kuwait instead of abroad.