COVID-19 scare: Pakistan bans domestic air travel of unvaccinated adults

"Restriction is for domestic air travel and people travelling from Pakistan to abroad or from abroad to Pakistan are exempted from restriction," the order stated. 

New Delhi: In a bid to boost COVID-19 vaccination, Pakistan has banned domestic travel of unvaccinated adults, i.e., people above 18, IANS cited media reports as saying. As per a document accessed by Dawn and issued by the Natio­nal Command and Opera­tion Centre (NCOC) no unvaccinated citizen of 18 and above will be permitted to undertake dom­e­s­tic air travel from August 1. "Restriction is for domestic air travel and people travelling from Pakistan to abroad or from abroad to Pakistan are exempted from restriction. It is also not applicable on link flights if these are within 72 hours of arrival or departure," IANS quoted the document as saying.  Further, it added that partially vaccinated individuals, foreign nationals, Pakistani nationals possessing documentary proof of vaccination abroad and patients who are clinically advised against vaccination due to risk of reaction will be exempted from the restriction.