São Paulo – Lebanon announced that the Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut will reopen for commercial flights on July 1. Traffic will be kept at 10% of capacity from a year ago, the prime minister’s office said this Friday (12).
Private flights will resume on June 24. Passengers will be tested for Covid-19 on arrival, and those who test positive will be required to self-isolate, Saudi newspaper Arab News reported.
“We will work to resume flights to the Arabian Gulf region, and we will focus on countries conducting PCR tests to detect coronavirus infections ,” prime minister Hassan Diab said during a meeting with tourism industry representatives on Tuesday 09).
Lebanon had 1,402 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 31 deaths as of this Friday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
