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The UAE on Wednesday barred entry to travellers from Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
The measures include
national and overseas airlines as well as transit passengers arriving on them.
Transit flights travelling through the UAE and those destined for the above countries are exempt from the ruling.
The ruling will come into effect from 11.59pm on Friday.
On Monday, Uganda s president Yoweri Museveni introduced new lockdown measures to tackle a wave of Covid-19 cases among young people.
Coronavirus third wave - in pictures A health worker arranges an oxygen concentrator machine at a newly inaugurated Covid-19 centre in Chennai, India. AFP
Entry into the UAE from Vietnam is being suspended for all incoming passengers on national and foreign carriers, and those carrying transit passengers, starting June 5, said a report.