Kurdistan’s Erbil airport sends back three Chinese to Dubai over coronavirus

Kurdistan’s Erbil airport sends back three Chinese to Dubai over coronavirus
February 1, 2020, 12:52 pm

Passengers queue with their luggage at the check-in counter inside the terminal of Erbil International Airport. (File photo AFP)

Erbil International Airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq denied entry to three Chinese citizens over fears about the coronavirus outbreak in China, authorities said on Saturday.

The three passengers were sent back to Dubai, from where they had flown to Erbil, a statement from Kurdistan’s airport authority said.

Several countries tightened travel curbs on Friday, a day after the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency.

Iraq’s Basra International Airport said on Friday it was denying entry to passengers of any nationality traveling to Iraq from China.

The Australian government on Saturday said it would bar non-citizens arriving from China from entering the country under new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.

source: Reuters

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