• Update on the entry measures for travelers coming to KSA, and reducing the period of the institutional quarantine:

Effective September 23, 2021, the government of Saudi Arabia shall reduce the period of institutional quarantine to 5 days for travelers coming to the Kingdom from non-restricted countries.

• IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

1) Effective June 16, 2021, all vaccinated non-Saudi passengers and their companions traveling to KSA MUST have completed filling out their immunization data in the vaccination registration website before departure to the Kingdom, through the following website: https://muqeem.sa/#/vaccine-registration/home. Airlines shall verify the completion of the registration process for passengers through the following methods:

-          Passenger must present a successful registration message on their mobile phone

-          Passenger must present a printed certificate with the registration number

2) Passengers are reminded to download and register in the Tawakkalna Application when arriving to the Kingdom. To download: Tawakkalna (COVID-19 KSA) application

• Effective September 07, 2021, the color of the health status (No record of infection) will start to change in the Tawakkalna application based on the age of the user. The color white will appear in the health status for those over 12 years old. The color green will appear in the health status for those under the age of 12 years old.

3) (August 05, 2021) Non-Saudi citizens (Iqama holder only) who are currently outside Saudi Arabia and have received one of the vaccines approved by the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia,  mandatory to register via the link : https://eservices.moh.gov.sa/CoronaVaccineRegistration  in order to get the approval of their vaccination certificates and update their immunization status in Thawakkalna.

• Effective September 23, 2021, the government of Saudi Arabia shall reduce the period of institutional quarantine to 5 days for travelers coming to the Kingdom from non-restricted countries.

• All travelers arriving to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia coming from non-restricted countries , must complete their institutional quarantine at their own expense starting from the time of arrival at the institutional quarantine facilities, according to the following cases of immunization:

  • Unvaccinated arrivals

  • Arrivals who have received one dose of the approved vaccines in Saudi Arabia

  • Arrivals who have received one of the vaccines approved by the World Health organization and not approved in Saudi Arabia

  • Arrivals who have received one of the vaccines not approved by the World Health organization and not approved in Saudi Arabia

• Must submit a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure. They should comply with institutional quarantine for 5 days with 2 PCR tests, one within 24 hours of arrival and another after the end of the 5^th day. The period of institutional quarantine ends if the result is negative. They should comply with the times of the taking PCR tests based on what appears on ‘Tawakkalna’ application.

  • A PRINTED Certificate from a verified lab must include: passenger’s name, passport number or ID which verifies that the passenger tested negative within 72 hours before scheduled the scheduled time of departure.

• Accompanies are allowed to enter with vaccinated parents, according to the following:

  • Applied to the unvaccinated accompanying under the age of 18, home quarantine for a period of 5 days and must take a PCR test on the 5^th day of (for who completed (8) years and above), must adhere to all precautions specified by the Ministry.

  • Institutional quarantine is applied to unvaccinated accompanying who have completed the age of 18 years and above.

• The recovery from infection with the COVID-19 virus is not considered as a justification for not applying the institutional quarantine procedures, as the Public Health Authority (Weqaya) does not consider it an indicator.