UAE to suspend arrivals from Vietnam starting June 5

The General Civil Aviation Authority and the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority jointly made the announcement on Thursday.

The suspension is applicable to transit passengers as well. Transit passengers on flights coming to the UAE and headed to Vietnam are the only exception.

Hanoi had on Saturday said that it detected a highly infectious new variant. Vietnam's health minister Nguyen Thanh Long had said that the new variant was particularly contagious via air.