By: ONA
Muscat: : Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Al Shamsi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development, said that the Sultanate has tasked airline companies to announce their lists of incoming travellers to facilitate the process of institutional isolation in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Committee.
He said that 1,700 citizens arriving from abroad were quarantined. The Supreme Committee’s decision to prohibit the arrival of travellers from certain countries was due to the fact that tests on such travellers showed many COVID-19-positive cases, some of which exceeded 20 percent of segments, said the Minister of Health.
In addition, Brig. Mohammed Salam Al Hashami of the Directorate-General Public Relations, Royal Oman Police (ROP), said that the ROP is following up developments and decisions of the Supreme Committee.