Uganda suspends all flights, passengers from India

Uganda on Friday said it will not allow passengers and passenger flights originating from India starting Saturday and until further notice. The African country has already identified the COVID-19 variant first detected in India.

"All travelers who may have been in India or traveled through India in the last 14 days regardless of the route taken shall not be allowed into Uganda," the country's Minister of Health Ruth Aceng told reporters.

The minister said all travelers arriving from India before the suspension date regardless of the route of travel will be expected to be in possession of a negative PCR COVID-19 test certificate, which is digitally verifiable and conducted within 120 hours from the time of sample removal.