Kuwait to Resume Commercial Flights with Egypt

On Wednesday, Kuwait announced that it will resume commercial flights with Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, whose nationals make up some 70 percent of residents in Kuwait, after months of suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Government spokesman Tareq Al-Mazrem said the decision is conditional to complying with regulations to be decided by the ministerial coronavirus emergency committee.

Apart from Nepal, the other five nations have the biggest communities in Kuwait among residents. Together, the six nations have around 2.3 million people in Kuwait, out of a total expat population of 3.3 million. Flights with many countries had been suspended several months ago as part of Kuwait’s measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The Kuwaiti Cabinet also allowed residents who have received unapproved vaccinations outside the country – namely Sinopharm, Sinovac and Sputnik V – to enter Kuwait, provided they take one more dose of one of the four approved vaccinations in Kuwait – Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.