Abu Dhabi: Those arriving in India from UAE airports have been exempted from the PCR check required before departure.

This is a very comforting decision for UAE expatriates. Exemptions are available for those who have been vaccinated in the UAE. Earlier, the exemption was only for those who had been vaccinated in India, but under the new directive, those who have been vaccinated in the UAE will no longer need PCR.

The long-awaited exemption was granted by the expatriate community after the Union Ministry of Health included the UAE in the list of countries that do not require PCR. With this, PCR check will be waived for travelers from Gulf countries except for Kuwait. Kuwait is not on the new list either.

The proposal will take effect from today. A vaccination certificate should be uploaded to the air facility. Those who have not been vaccinated should produce the PCR results taken within 72 hours. Exemptions are available for those under the age of five.

Seol: Three were killed in a plane crash during training in South Korea. One person was injured. The incident took place in the hilly region of the southeastern city of Sachion. KT-1 South Korean Air Force planes collided. Three pilots died in the crash. One person is reported to be in critical condition. Three helicopters, 20 vehicles, and rescue workers flew to the scene.

Washington: US President Joe Biden has signed the Anti-Lynching Bill. The need for more than a century of American civil rights organizations and activists has been met. With this, genocide became a hate crime in the country.
The US Congress first enacted an anti-lynching bill 120 years ago. But so far it has failed to pass the law more than 200 times.

The U.S. civil rights struggle against genocide began in 1955 with the killing of a 14 – year – an old black man named Emmett Till. Named the Emet Till Anti-Lynching Bill. Biden said that between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 black people were massacred in the United States.

Kiev: Six weeks after Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the number of refugees has risen to more than 4 million, says the head of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi. Grandi tweeted that he had arrived in Lviv, Ukraine, and had been in talks with those concerned to ensure the necessary assistance to those affected by the war and those displaced.

He said it was the largest refugee influx since World War II. The United Nations estimates that 2.3 million people have fled Ukraine to Poland and thousands more to Romania, Moldova and Hungary.