Kuwait Prepares to Receive Fully Vaccinated Residents
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THULHIJJA 22, 1442 AH SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 2021 16 Pages Max 48º Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18496 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait mourns passing of China says Delta variant Planted art: Japan rice field Weightlifter El-Bakh wins 4 actress Intisar Al-Sharrah 5 behind coronavirus surge 12 work marks Tokyo Olympics 16 Qatar’s first Olympic gold Kuwait prepares to receive fully vaccinated residents MoH to check vaccination certificates • Visit visas remain suspended KUWAIT: Kuwait is preparing to receive vaccinat- the first three vaccines and one dose of the fourth. ed residents from today, the health ministry Airlines have also instructed passengers that at announced on Friday. Abdullah Al-Sanad, least 14 days must lapse from the second dose to be spokesman of the ministry, said in a press statement allowed to board the plane. that Kuwait airport will allow the return of fully vac- The DGCA said residents and Kuwaitis who have cinated expats starting today according to the deci- been vaccinated in Kuwait - and after the green sion of the government. The ministry’s team will status appears in their Immune/Kuwait Mobile ID check the vaccination certificates of travelers vacci- applications - should complete registration on the nated outside the country, he added. Shlonik application and Kuwait Mosafer platform. The spokesman asked vaccinated residents Residents who have received approved vaccines who will return to Kuwait to upload their vaccina- outside Kuwait are required to authorize their vac- tion certificates on the ministry’s website for confir- cination certificate by uploading it to the health mation. According to the decision of the Kuwaiti ministry website. A green mark will appear in a few government, arrivals must present the result of a days on the Immune/Kuwait Mobile ID apps. The negative PCR test taken within 72 hours before vaccination must be verified electronically before departure. When they land in Kuwait, they must be boarding the plane and upon arrival in Kuwait quarantined at home for seven days. If they want to through checking the QR code. No paper docu- end the quarantine early, they must have a negative ments will be accepted. These travelers must also PCR test result on the third day. complete registration on the Shlonik app and Visit visas remain suspended and there is no visa Kuwait Mosafer platform. on arrival facility at Kuwait airport. The Directorate Unvaccinated Kuwaitis who have the red or yel- General of Civil Aviation last week issued new regu- low status on their Immune/Kuwait Mobile ID apps lations for travelers from Aug 1. The regulations must first complete registration with the Shlonik app state that residents with valid iqamas can return to and Kuwait Mosafer platform. They must pay the the country provided they have been vaccinated cost of two PCR tests and take the first upon arrival fully with one of four vaccines recognized by in Kuwait and the second on the sixth day of institu- Kuwait. Other vaccines are not accepted. tional quarantine. They must also pay the cost of the The circular said only Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford- seven-day quarantine at a local hotel authorized and KUWAIT: Passengers queue at the check-in counters prior to their departure at Kuwait International AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vac- mentioned on the Kuwait Mosafer platform. Airport in this July 15, 2021 photo. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat cines are approved. Two doses must be received of Continued on Page 2 war’”. On Friday, Zionist Foreign Zionists blame Minister Yair Lapid said he has ordered the nation’s diplomats to push for UN Cruise ship sails as action against “Iranian terrorism”. Iran for attack “I’ve instructed the embassies in Saudi reopens to Washington, London and the UN to on oil tanker work with their interlocutors in govern- ment and the relevant delegations in the vaccinated tourists JERUSALEM: The Zionist entity is UN headquarters in New York,” Lapid pressing for international action against said on Twitter. “Iran is not just a RIYADH: A super cruise ship has departed Iran over a deadly attack on a ship man- (Zionist) problem, but an exporter of Saudi Arabia for the first time, setting sail for aged by a Zionist billionaire, branding terrorism, destruction and instability regional waters as the kingdom seeks to Tehran an “exporter of terrorism” after that are hurting us all,” he said. Lapid expand its tourism industry and diversify its the likely drone strike. The MT Mercer said he had also spoken to his British oil-dependent economy. The MSC Bellissima, a Street tanker was struck Thursday in the counterpart Dominic Raab, stressing vessel longer than three football fields, depart- northern Indian Ocean, killing two “the need to respond severely to the ed for the first in a series of voyages from crewmembers, in what the United States attack on the ship in which a British cit- Jeddah Islamic Port to Aqaba in Jordan and said was a drone-style attack. izen was killed”. Zodiac Maritime, the Safaga in Egypt. There has been no claim of respon- tanker’s London-based operator The launch of the service on Friday comes sibility for the strike, but maritime owned by Zionist billionaire Eyal Ofer, This handout photo made available on July 18, 2021 shows the guided-missile two days after Saudi Arabia opened its first industry analysts Dryad Global said said a Romanian national also died in cruiser USS Shiloh, the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship cruise ship terminal at the port in Jeddah, on “this latest attack has the hallmarks of the attack. USNS Cesar Chavez, and the coastal patrol ship USS Whirlwind as they transit the the kingdom’s west coast. “The inauguration of the ongoing (Zionist)/Iran ‘shadow Continued on Page 2 Strait of Hormuz. — AFP the first cruise ship port represents an impor- tant step... to support the growth of the tourism sector in the kingdom,” Cruise Saudi managing director Fawaz Farooqi said, quoted by Saudi Press Agency. Doctors in Saudi US sounds alarm Developing the tourism and leisure sector is one of the foundations of Crown Prince separate Yemeni Mohammed bin Salman’s “Vision 2030” plan to on Delta variant prepare the Arab world’s largest economy for baby from twin WASHINGTON: The Delta variant of the coron- the post-oil era. The Gulf country enacted a avirus is as contagious as chickenpox, probably landmark decision in 2019 to offer tourist visas, RIYADH: A team of doctors in Saudi Arabia has sep- causes more severe disease than past strains, and relaxing rules that had largely restricted visits arated a Yemeni baby from her parasitic twin, authori- breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals may to business travelers and Muslim pilgrims. ties said, marking their 50th successful operation on be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases, accord- Citizens from 49 countries - mostly conjoined twins. Aisha Ahmed Saeed was born fully ing to a leaked US government document. The internal slide presentation produced by the Centers European - had become eligible to apply to developed but with an extended pelvis area and an visit the kingdom, which has a population of for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stresses extra pair of lower extremities, the Saudi English-lan- that “the war has changed” as a result of Delta. It around 35 million. Between September 2019 guage Arab News daily reported. RIYADH: The father of conjoined twins thanks sur- was first reported by The Washington Post and has and March 2020, it issued 400,000 - only for The procedure to separate her took seven hours geons after the successful surgery to separate his been verified by AFP. the pandemic to crush that momentum as bor- and 45 minutes and involved a team of 25 medical staff CDC director Rochelle Walenksy cited data daughter at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s ders were closed. including doctors, technicians and nurses, said the from the presentation last week to justify a Hospital on July 28, 2021. — AFP Constructed in France, the MSC Bellissima is state-run King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief return to masks for vaccinated people in high- 315 meters long and has a capacity of 4,500 Center. “The surgery went very well... the coordination risk areas. One of the biggest takeaways is the passengers, making it one of the world’s largest A parasitic twin occurs when a twin embryo begins finding that breakthrough infections in vaccinat- between the team was excellent,” Dr Abdullah Al- to develop in the mother, but ultimately does not sepa- cruise ships. First launched in 2019 and operat- Rabeeah, head of the team, told Arab News. ed people are highly contagious, with the data rate. This results in a semi-formed twin adjoined to the coming from previous studies and a new analysis ed by Swiss-based MSC Cruises, it will embark “We managed to get the baby awake and she is on 21 trips up until Oct 30. The mammoth vessel body of the developed twin. The official Saudi Press of an outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts. opening her eyes... she even interacted with her moth- Agency said Aisha is from Al-Mahra province in war- Experts rely on a number called the cycle thresh- has an array of amenities, including swimming er just at the exit of the operating room. We are happy, pools, gyms, restaurants, cafes and ballrooms. torn Yemen, where a Saudi-led military coalition is old (Ct) value to indicate how much virus an we are celebrating the 50th success and we will con- infected person harbors, with lower numbers Continued on Page 2 backing the government against the Iran-backed tinue to help those who are in need.” Houthi rebels.