DUBAI: Oman’s Supreme Committee tasked with COVID-19 has allowed cinemas, parks, beaches and touristic attractions to reopen, daily Times of Oman reported.
The Ministry of Interior’s decision stated that food courts, kindergartens and nurseries, exhibition halls, conference rooms, game arcades and parlors, shops selling and renting camping equipment, visa application centers, and rehabilitation and treatment clinics in the country will also be allowed to reopen.
Other places, such as beauty salons and gyms, will now also be allowed to operate at a higher capacity than earlier. All outlets must follow coronavirus precautionary measures, such as reduced capacity, social distancing and more frequent cleaning.
Meanwhile, Oman’s Ministry of Labor gave employers a grace period of one month, from Dec. 6 to Jan. 6, to change the job title of foreign employees if their previous titles have been ‘Omanized.’
‘Omanization’ is a policy enacted by the government of Oman in 1988 to replace expatriate workers with trained Omani personnel.
Oman eases coronavirus restrictions, allows some economic activities to resume
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Oman eases coronavirus restrictions, allows some economic activities to resume
- Omani Ministry of Interior allowed more businesses to resume activity after months of closure due to the pandemic
- Other businesses will be allowed to expand their capacity
Iran’s foreign minister heads to Muscat for nuclear talks with US
- Iran will engage in the talks “with authority and with the aim of reaching a fair, mutually acceptable and dignified understanding on the nuclear issue,” a spokesperson said
TEHRAN: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has departed for the Omani capital Muscat at the head of a diplomatic delegation for nuclear talks with the US due to be held on Friday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said.
The US and Iran have agreed to hold talks in Oman on Friday, officials for both sides said, even as they remain at odds over Washington’s insistence that negotiations must include Tehran’s missile arsenal and Iran’s vow to discuss only its nuclear program.
Iran will engage in the talks “with authority and with the aim of reaching a fair, mutually acceptable and dignified understanding on the nuclear issue,” the spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Thursday.
“We hope the American side will also participate in this process with responsibility, realism and seriousness,” Baghaei added.
