Kuwait Airways Says Suspends Flights To Iran Over Outbreak Of New Coronavirus
Faizan Hashmi Published February 21, 2020 | 03:10 AM
DOHA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st February, 2020) Kuwait Airways said it had suspended flights to and from Iran over the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the Iranian city of Qom.
On Wednesday, media reported that two Iranian residents of Qom had died in Iran of the coronavirus. A member of the National Committee on Infection Diseases at the Iranian Health Ministry, Masoud Mardani, told Sputnik that they had not had any contact with Chinese citizens or people who had visited China. Moreover, Iran confirmed three more cases of coronavirus in Qom and Arak, adding that 19 people were currently being tested for the virus.
"All flights to Iran have been suspended starting from today, until further notification in line with a recommendation of the Healthcare Ministry and civil aviation department over the confirmed cases of the new coronavirus," the airline wrote on its Twitter page on late Thursday.
The airline's decision followed the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry's recommendation for the country's citizens to refrain from visiting Qom. All the people, who will arrive from Qom to Kuwait, will be quarantined.
The novel coronavirus disease, dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China's Hubei Province, in late December 2019 and has since spread to more than 25 other countries. The outbreak has already left over 75,000 people infected worldwide and resulted in more than 2,100 fatalities.
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