Oman bans visitors' entry amid rising COVID-19 cases

Oman will allow only citizens and residents to enter its territory starting from Thursday amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases.

MUSCAT, 

Oman will allow only citizens and residents to enter its territory starting from Thursday amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases which is pressuring the health care system, the Gulf state's coronavirus committee said on Monday.

"The committee also extended an evening ban on all commercial activities until the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, scheduled to start in mid-April," the official Oman News Agency quoted a committee statement as saying.

A curfew starting from March 28 on the movement of vehicles and people outdoors between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. would be lifted on Thursday, but it would be reimposed during Ramadan from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., according to the statement.

Earlier on Monday, the Omani health ministry announced the COVID-19 caseload of 164,274 after 1,117 new infections were added, while the overall recoveries totaled 147,539 and the death toll from the virus reached 1,722.

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