Coronavirus: Oman closes borders and halts all public transport

Oman is shutting its outskirts and suspending all open transportation from Thursday following a choice by the nation's incomparable advisory group on coronavirus, state media declared on Wednesday.

"Starting tomorrow, just Omanis will be permitted to enter the nation, and no Omanis will be permitted to travel abroad," WAF News composed on Twitter.

During a gathering on Tuesday evening, the board of trustees reported a heap of new measures to restrain the spread of coronavirus in the Sultanate as nations over the Gulf force further limitations to check the effect of the pandemic.

"A choice to stop all open transportation in the Sultanate, including "transports, ships, taxis (microbus), except for transports and ships going to and from the Musandam Governorate and the territory of Masirah from tomorrow, Thursday 19 March 2020 until further notification," The Ministry of Transport said in a Tweet.

The board has likewise requested markets, shopping centers, cafés, vacation spots, mosques, sports focuses and social clubs to close from noontime on Wednesday. Meetings and different social occasions will likewise be suspended.Grocery stores, drug stores, centers and optical shops will stay open.

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Oman Air has seen a more-than 60 percent decrease in travelers since the start of this current month. Last Sunday, the bearer got some information about 40 percent of its staff to remain at home and take their yearly leave.

With traveler numbers diving, Muscat Airport has shut one of its three traveler docks. A representative for the air terminal said it is thinking about shutting a subsequent wharf and leaving only one operational if the circumstance doesn't improve before the finish of March.

Oman has revealed 33 cases on coronavirus, with 12 individuals recuperating up until this point. The initial two cases were affirmed in the nation on February 24 and included two Omani ladies who had as of late came back from Iran, which is the most exceedingly awful influenced nation in the locale.

Sultan Haitham container Tariq, who as of late assumed control following the passing of Sultan Qaboos canister Said last January, framed an incomparable board of trustees entrusted with reacting to the pandemic, which is influencing in excess of 170 nations worldwide with 208,221 cases affirmed on Thursday and a sum of 8,272 passings.