<p>The United Arab Emirates has extended a suspension for those travelling from India and several other South Asian countries due to Covid-related guidelines. According to Etihad Airlines, the ban will be in place till further notice. However, other airlines have said this is pending government review.</p>.<p>The extension does not include UAE citizens, diplomats or those holding the nation's investor visa. Nor does it include fully vaccinated travellers that hold a residency visa and have taken three tests since June 23rd.</p>.<p>However, those who fall outside this bracket and hope to conduct business or travel for leisure to the UAE will have to continue to wait for the restrictions to be lifted.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia warned on Tuesday that citizens visiting destinations on its list of countries blacklisted due to Covid-19 will face three-year travel bans following their return.</p>.<p>Those found to have travelled to restricted countries would face "hefty penalties... as well as being prevented from travelling abroad for a period of three years", the interior ministry said on Twitter.</p>.<p>"Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the spread of new variants, the ministry warns against travelling to countries on its (restricted) list, whether directly or indirectly via other countries."</p>.<p>According to the kingdom's state airline Saudia, citizens are barred from travelling to 16 countries, including the neighbouring United Arab Emirates.</p>.<p>In its latest update to travel restrictions earlier this month, Riyadh said it had suspended flights to the UAE, Ethiopia and Vietnam to protect against a coronavirus variant.</p>.<p>The move comes after the oil-rich kingdom permitted fully immunised citizens to travel abroad, after a ban on foreign trips that lasted more than a year.</p>.<p>The UAE, and especially the emirate of Dubai, is a key leisure destination for Saudis.</p>.<p>The decision was taken due to "the spread of a new mutated strain of the (Covid-19) virus", the interior ministry said at the time, without explicitly mentioning the increasingly widespread Delta variant.</p>.<p>The variant, first detected in India and now present in dozens of countries around the world, is the most contagious of any Covid-19 strain yet identified.</p>
<p>The United Arab Emirates has extended a suspension for those travelling from India and several other South Asian countries due to Covid-related guidelines. According to Etihad Airlines, the ban will be in place till further notice. However, other airlines have said this is pending government review.</p>.<p>The extension does not include UAE citizens, diplomats or those holding the nation's investor visa. Nor does it include fully vaccinated travellers that hold a residency visa and have taken three tests since June 23rd.</p>.<p>However, those who fall outside this bracket and hope to conduct business or travel for leisure to the UAE will have to continue to wait for the restrictions to be lifted.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia warned on Tuesday that citizens visiting destinations on its list of countries blacklisted due to Covid-19 will face three-year travel bans following their return.</p>.<p>Those found to have travelled to restricted countries would face "hefty penalties... as well as being prevented from travelling abroad for a period of three years", the interior ministry said on Twitter.</p>.<p>"Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the spread of new variants, the ministry warns against travelling to countries on its (restricted) list, whether directly or indirectly via other countries."</p>.<p>According to the kingdom's state airline Saudia, citizens are barred from travelling to 16 countries, including the neighbouring United Arab Emirates.</p>.<p>In its latest update to travel restrictions earlier this month, Riyadh said it had suspended flights to the UAE, Ethiopia and Vietnam to protect against a coronavirus variant.</p>.<p>The move comes after the oil-rich kingdom permitted fully immunised citizens to travel abroad, after a ban on foreign trips that lasted more than a year.</p>.<p>The UAE, and especially the emirate of Dubai, is a key leisure destination for Saudis.</p>.<p>The decision was taken due to "the spread of a new mutated strain of the (Covid-19) virus", the interior ministry said at the time, without explicitly mentioning the increasingly widespread Delta variant.</p>.<p>The variant, first detected in India and now present in dozens of countries around the world, is the most contagious of any Covid-19 strain yet identified.</p>