The United Arab Emirates(UAE) has announced that the citizens of the country will now require to get fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to travel in the country.
citizens of the country will be mandatorily required to get fully vaccinated for those who are not fully vaccinated and with a requirement to obtain the booster dose for the fully vaccinated.
The country’s National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) said in a tweet, “Ban on Travel on UAE citizens unvaccinated with #Covid19 vaccine, starting Jan 10, 2022, with a requirement to obtain the booster dose for the fully vaccinated.”
#NCEMA and @MoFAICUAE: Ban on Travel on UAE citizens unvaccinated with #Covid19 vaccine, starting Jan 10, 2022, with a requirement to obtain the booster dose for the fully vaccinated. With an exemption for medically exempted from taking the vaccine, humanitarian & treatment cases pic.twitter.com/zUw1FoSLBt
— NCEMA UAE (@NCEMAUAE) January 1, 2022
there will be certain relaxations and it will not be applicable for those medically exempted from taking the vaccine, humanitarian and treatment cases.
This decision by the UAE comes as the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 is rallying infections in a large number of countries and has surged the hospitalizations in many parts of the world.

UAE Have already achieved 100 percent of the population received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 91.50 percent are fully vaccinated.