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The decision by the UAE authorities is “believed to be related to the second wave of COVID-19,” Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said in a statement.

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday temporarily suspended the issuance of new visas to visitors from Pakistan and 11 other countries until further notice, the Foreign Office said.

The choice by the UAE specialists is “accepted to be identified with the second rush of COVID-19,” Foreign Office representative Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said in an assertion.

“We have discovered that the UAE has briefly suspended the issuance of new visit visas until an additional declaration for 12 nations, including Pakistan,” he stated, adding that the public authority is looking for legitimate affirmation from the UAE experts in this issue.

In any case, the suspension would not have any significant bearing on as of now gave visas, the Foreign Office said.

It was not quickly away from numerous classifications of visas that would be influenced by the suspension. The UAE has different visa classifications, including business, vacationer, travel, and understudy.

Different nations hit by the UAE government’s new visa orders incorporate Turkey, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Kenya, and Afghanistan.

In June, when cases in Pakistan were on the ascent, UAE carrier Emirates had declared the impermanent suspension of traveler administrations from Pakistan till July 3. The choice came after around 30 Pakistanis who showed up in Hong Kong installed an Emirates flight tried positive for the infection. The aircraft continued its trips in July, the Dawn News detailed.

In August, Kuwait’s aeronautics restricted business trips to Pakistan, and 30 different nations were viewed as ”high danger” because of the spread of the Covid.

The quantity of diseases has been ascending in Pakistan since before the end of last month and specialists have proclaimed that the nation was seeing the second influx of COVID-19. The energy pace of the infection has expanded, particularly in significant urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, and Hyderabad.

On Monday, Prime Minister Imran Khan had encouraged the individuals to “go about as a country” to check the spread of the novel Covid, which has so far contaminated 363,380 individuals and asserted 7,230 lives in the nation.