{"id":373526,"date":"2020-09-14T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373526"},"modified":"2020-09-14T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T07:14:15","slug":"saudi-arabia-partially-lifts-flight-restrictions-allows-exceptional-categories-to-enter-and-exit-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-partially-lifts-flight-restrictions-allows-exceptional-categories-to-enter-and-exit-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia partially lifts flight restrictions, allows \u2019exceptional categories\u2019 to enter and exit the kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will partially lift its suspension on international flights from Tuesday, the interior ministry said, six months after travel curbs were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom will end all restrictions on air, land and sea transport for Saudi citizens \u201cafter January 1\u201d next year, the ministry added on Sunday, adding that an exact date will be announced in December.<\/p>\n<p>Gulf citizens and non-Saudis with valid residency permits or visas will be allowed to enter the kingdom from Tuesday as long as they are not infected with the virus, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency.<\/p>\n<p>People in other \u201cexceptional categories\u201d, including Saudi government and military employees, embassy workers, students and people requiring medical treatment, will also be allowed to enter and exit the kingdom from Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will partially lift its suspension on international flights from Tuesday, the interior ministry said, six months after travel curbs were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The kingdom will end all restrictions on air, land and sea transport for Saudi citizens \u201cafter January 1\u201d next year, the ministry added on Sunday, adding that an exact date will be announced in December. Gulf citizens and non-Saudis with valid residency permits or visas will be allowed to enter the kingdom from Tuesday as long as they are not infected with the virus, the ministry said in a statement published by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}