Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas revealed that a group of companies has taken out its workers residing in a number of potential future isolation areas, including the “Farwaniya” and “Khaitan” areas as well as other areas that the isolation will not apply to, such as the “Raqqi”, “Hawalli” and “Salmiya” areas And "Crusader".
Officials in those companies justified, according to the newspaper itself, that the workers are removed not because of Corona, but for fear of not being able to work in the event of territorial isolation or embargoes, while security sources confirmed that field teams are closely monitoring the entrances and exits of the isolation areas to prevent repeated attempts to smuggle them as it took place in the “Mahboula” and “Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh” areas.
With the increasing successive indicators and information circulated about the isolation of new areas, as happened in the “Mahboula” and “Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh” areas, many companies began to take out their workers from the potential isolation areas to other areas that may be excluded or which would have fewer prohibitions.
work of Kuwait’s procedures regarding Coronavirus, the General Administration of Civil Aviation of Kuwait issued on Tuesday a circular on operational procedures for the evacuation of residents of Arab and foreign countries to their home countries through Kuwait International Airport, due to the outbreak of the emerging Coronavirus. But it confirmed travel ban on any evacuated resident that is confirmed to be infected with the virus, according to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
In the first article of the circular, related to the travel destinations of countries that did not request medical examination for their nationals, the Kuwaiti administration stated that the procedures for organizing passenger travel will be carried out in accordance with the established passenger designated travel terminal with domestic and foreign airlines, and ground service providers, in accordance with procedures recommended by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health to combat the spread of the virus, and the instructions of the General Administration of Civil Aviation.
It was also pointed out that the second article, concerned with the destinations for the countries that requested medical examination of their nationals after the approval of the work team, to implement the mechanism for the return of residents to their countries headed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqil; where the matter is done through 11 steps, including civil aviation, to implement the plan to evacuate nationals of countries, in coordination with domestic and foreign airlines, and coordinate with the Air Transport Department and the operations of Kuwait International Airport,
by specifying all departing flights through the positions of external aircraft in the airport yard.
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