Turkey stops flights from six countries due to virus variants
Turkey is in the process of opening up amid lower COVID-19 cases and vaccine progress.
Turkey halted flights from several countries on Monday due to concerns about variants of COVID-19.
The Turkish Ministry of the Interior stopped all flights from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka due to new variants of the coronavirus, Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT World reported.
Anyone entering Turkey from a different country but who has been in the six banned countries within the past two weeks will need to provide a negative virus test and quarantine for two weeks. Anyone coming from Afghanistan or Pakistan will need to quarantine for 10 days. People coming from the United Kingdom, Iran, Egypt and Singapore will need to present a negative test, according to the outlet.
Infections of the delta variant of COVID-19 are increasing in some parts of the world, leading to panic and governments reinstating anti-virus measures.
