Pakistan to Prohibit Traveling to Pak From UK, SA and 4 Other Countries

The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) on Friday broadened travel limitations on classification C nations — South Africa, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Ireland, Portugal and the Netherlands — till February 28, however voyagers from these nations can in any case come to Pakistan whenever permitted by the National Command and Operation Center. The PCAA likewise diminished the PCR test necessity for the nations classified as B and C from 96 to 72 hours. 

The movement related standard working strategies (SOPs) gave by the PCAA in December and January have likewise been reached out till Feb 28. 

The authority has set 24 nations in classification An and six in class C. 

The PCAA said the worldwide explorers from the nations set in classification A didn’t need Covid-19 PCR test before section into Pakistan. The explorers from classification B nations are needed to go through Covid-19 test before beginning of movement to Pakistan (most extreme 72 hours old). Notwithstanding, the explorers from C-class nations are confined and just permitted according to the rules given by the NCOC. 

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The limitations on voyagers from C-classification nations have been broadened following the expanding number of cases announced there during the second rush of Covid-19. 

The Pakistan Interna­tional Airlines (PIA) plane, which had been kept down in Malaysia fourteen days prior because of a British legal dispute over a rent question, was taken back to Islamabad on Friday. The plane was delivered and given over to PIA on Wednesday. 

The PIA’s Boeing 777 with 173 travelers on board from Kuala Lumpur arrived at new Islamabad International Airport on Friday evening. 

PIA team individuals had left Karachi for Malaysia on Wednesday to bring back the plane and later it was ope­rated as a traveler fli­ght. The airplane was kept down by Malaysian experts on Jan 15 after a nearby court request over a rent contest with a renting organization which had documented an objection in the Malaysian court. 

Then, the public banner transporter has initiated biometric participation on TMS machines, which was suspended across the PIA network in November 2020 to forestall the spread of Covid-19 and shield the workers from conceivable danger of diseases.