ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned arrivals from 12 countries from March 23 (tomorrow) uptill April 5, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced.
These 12 C-category countries include Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Comoros, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
Travellers from 20 A-category countries do not require any PCR test to enter Pakistan.
These countries include Australia, Bhutan, China, Fiji, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago and Vietnam.
All other countries fall in the B category. Travellers from these countries require negative PCR test results on arrival in Pakistan. The results must not be older than 72 hours.
In a revised notification issued by the CAA, United Kingdom has been moved from the C-category to the B-category.
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