Indonesia Slaps Entry Ban on Foreigners from 14 Countries Amid Omicron Scare
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Ririe Ranggasari
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Laila Afifa
Jumat, 7 Januari 2022 12:46 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia starting today closes its borders to foreign nationals arriving from 14 countries with high risks of Omicron infections. The policy is enacted to prevent the new Covid-19 variant from spreading domestically.
On January 4, the Covid-19 Task Force issued Circular no.1/2022 on Health Protocols for Overseas Travel during the Covid-19 Pandemic. It includes a ban entry for foreign citizens who in the previous two weeks have stayed in or visited countries with high numbers of community transmissions of the Omricon variant.
The countries are South Africa, Botswana, Norway and France. Indonesia also bans arrival from neighbors of those nations, which are Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini and Lesotho.
Indonesia also slaps entry bans on foreign nationals who had been in the UK and Denmark, where the number of Omicron infections reached more than 10,000 cases.
Meanwhile, Indonesian nationals returning from those countries are allowed entry under strict protocols, including testing, quarantine, and vaccination if they had not received one.
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