Saudi Arabia to apply home quarantine for groups excluded from institutional quarantine

Saudi Arabia will apply home quarantine for the passengers excluded from institutional quarantine, who have not completed receiving doses of any of the COVID-19 vaccines approved by the Kingdom, SPA reported, citing a Ministry of Interior source. 
 

The measures will be applied according to the following:  
 

- An examination is conducted within 48 hours after arrival at the Kingdom by any means approved by the Ministry of Health, proving that there is no COVID-19 infection.

The quarantine period ends with the issuance of a negative examination result.

- A person under the age of eight years is excluded from the examination requirement, and the period of home quarantine for him/her ends after 48 hours from arriving in the Kingdom.

- The penalties prescribed for violating quarantine instructions shall be applied when violating any of the provisions in the abovementioned paragraphs.