Temperature scanners are used to screen passengers for fever with upon their arrival at Kuwait international airport in Kuwait City on January 29, 2020. - The disease has spread to more than 15 countries since it emerged out of Wuhan late last year, with the death toll soaring to 132 and confirmed infections nearing 6,000.All confirmed fatalities have so far been in China. Cases have been reported across the Asia Pacific region and in North America and Europe, but the Wuhan family in the UAE are the first in the Middle East. (Photo by STR / AFP)
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Kuwait today suspended all flights to and from 7 countries including Sri Lanka, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Bangladesh, Philippines and India for a week starting today.
Kuwait’s civil aviation directorate said in a tweet, that Kuwait also banned entry of anyone who has been in the aforementioned seven countries in the last two weeks, except for Kuwaitis coming from the seven countries, who will be allowed entry but will have to submit to quarantine procedures.