Pakistan to Ease Curbs on Inbound Air Travel from July 1

Pakistan will ease its restrictions on international inbound air travel from July 1.

According to Dawn, the country’s National Command and Operation Centre has decided to gradually normalise inbound international air travel. A document available to Dawn shows that flights from the UK, Europe, Canada, China and Malaysia, which was 20 per cent of the normal volume, would be raised to 40 per cent from July 1.

The document said existing pre-boarding and on-arrival testing protocols for all categories of the countries would remain the same. However, the home quarantine requirement for a negative Rapid Antigen Test cases has been abolished. Those who test positive will have to undergo quarantine as per prevailing procedure, the statement added.

A ministry of National Health Services official explained that Pakistan had introduced three categories for countries in October 2020 to deal with the pandemic.

“The countries in category A are exempted from the mandatory coronavirus testing, those in category B require a negative PCR test that has to be taken 72 hours before travel while people coming from countries in category C have to face restrictions and are only allowed under strict NCOC guidelines,” he said.

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