Wednesday, June 2, 2021
No Quarantine for Vaccinated Travelers coming to Saudi Arabia
The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in Saudi Arabia said that, Travelers who have been fully vaccinated with vaccine against Covid-19, do not need to quarantine after their arrival in Saudi Arabia.
However, In order to get benefit from this, they must have vaccination certificates that have been attested by the authorities in their home country.
- Those foreign travelers who are not vaccinated against Corona virus must institutional quarantine for 7 days. Related : Saudi Arabia to bear Corona treatment expenses of resident expats and GCC citizens Travelers
- So far, Saudi Arabia approved Pfizer BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson vaccines for travelers coming from outside the Kingdom.
- The Public Health Authority (Weqaya) said that the Institutional quarantine is hosting those coming from outside Saudi Arabia through air ports, who are subject to institutional quarantine in specific locations, to be quarantine at their own expense.
- The authority explained that home quarantine is restricting activities or separating people who are suspected of being exposed to infection and who do not have symptoms or positive result, in a way that leads to preventing the spread of infection and quarantine is at home with the availability of certain requirements. Read : GACA issues new guide for travelers
- While, home medical isolation is the separation of an infected person whose result has been proven positive in a way that prevents the spread of Covid-19 and the isolation is at home.
