The Ministry of Health has been following up reports in regional and international mass media stating that “some countries’ purchased invalid test-tubes to diagnose coronavirus (Covid-19) from China”. The Ministry also followed up reactions to these reports in the Sultanate....

    The Research Council (TRC) has opened applications for submitting pre-proposals for projects addressing the current COVID-19 pandemic, in line with the government efforts, for the new COVID-19 Research Program, with the deadline being Saturday, 4 April 2020. Interested...

    Oman Research and Education Network (OMREN) of The Research Council (TRC) has launched a new service called ‘Mirsal’ that is developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community to exchange learning objects and large data...

    The Ministry of Tourism has said that 94 hotel establishments in the country will be providing around 4, 445 hotel rooms to be used as Covid-19 relief and shelters under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. “The...

 The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced the registration of 15 new cases confirmed with Covid-19 on Saturday. Five (5) cases are linked with having close contact with confirmed cases of coronavirus, and eight (8) cases are related to travel,...

 In line with the recent decisions issued by the Supreme Committee on Covid-19, all domestic and international flights to and from the Sultanate’s airports will be suspended from noon on Sunday, March 29, except services to Musandam Governorate and cargo...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF) said it is closely monitoring the functions of wholesale markets, especially the Central Vegetable and Fruits Market in Mawaleh in the wake of Covid-19 crisis. A senior official from the ministry said that...

 The Sultanate’s Embassy in Washington said it has completed arrangements to bring back Omani citizens from the US and Canada. Around800 Omani citizens have confirmed their willingness to return to the Sultanate. The embassy has chartered flights that will leave...

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) said that it will stop receiving cash deposits for small currencies of the denominations one hundred Baisas to RO 1, starting from Sunday, March 29, until the end of Eid Al Adha 1441 AH....

In response to the Central Bank of Oman’s (CBO) appeal for banks to discourage the use of banknotes – as a precaution against the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) – local lenders have begun urging their customers to explore...

Volunteers from different establishments have come forward to join the Central Public Health Laboratories (CPHL) to keep up with the growing number of test samples for COVID-19. Since the beginning of the outbreak of the pandemic, the CPHL has tested...

The Sultanate’s Embassy in London called on all Omani citizens in the United Kingdom (UK) to hasten the completion of procedures to return to the Sultanate before 29 March 2020.   The embassy said in a statement that in the event...

The Ministry of Health today reaffirmed that ‘health isolation’ (home quarantine) is the duty of all citizens and residents who arrive from abroad, irrespective of whether they are students or belong to other segments of society.       The Ministry...

His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik today presided over a meeting of the Supreme Committee tasked with studying scopes for tackling coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. At the outset of the meeting, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his appreciation for the...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced today the registration of (10) new confirmed cases for citizens with Coronavirus (COVID-19).     Five out of the 10 cases are linked to contact infection, and 2 cases are linked to travel to the...