Supreme Committee: All international flight operations suspended

Oman Tuesday 24/March/2020 16:06 PM
By: Times News Service
Supreme Committee: All international flight operations suspended

Muscat: The Supreme Committee for Dealing with Covid 19, has held a meeting on Tuesday and issued new decisions to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The Supreme Committee for Dealing with Covid 19 has issued the following decisions:

1. All domestic and international flights to and from the Sultanate’s airports will be suspended, starting from March 29, 2020. However, flights to Musandam Governorate have been exempted from this.

2. The committee also decided that the relevant authorities to bring back the citizens, and scholarship students in particular, to the homeland. The committee directed the competent authorities to provide them with institutional isolation, and to use the latest technical means to track offenders who are isolated and quarantined, to ensure that the virus does not spread.

3. Opening a bank account to receive financial donations under the management of the Ministry of Health. The Ministry will announce the details of this account.

4. The Committee called on all members of society and institutions to adhere to the precautionary and preventive measures including avoiding gatherings, including those at homes.

More details to follow