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Saudi Arabia to impose travel ban for visits to 'red list' countries

Citizens who travel to countries including the UAE, Indonesia and Turkey are at risk of penalties including a three-year ban on travel.
A cemetery worker digs grave holes for victims of the COVID-19 coronavirus at Setu Gede cemetery in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on July 22, 2021.

In an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 and its more infectious Delta variant, Saudi Arabia will slap a three-year travel ban on its citizens who visit destinations on the kingdom’s “red list” of coronavirus hotspots, the Saudi news agency SPA said Tuesday.

"Traveling to the banned countries is an obvious violation of COVID-19-related travel restrictions and the kingdom's updated instructions," SPA quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying.

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