The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said Sunday its monitoring teams and other concerned authorities shut down eight tourist establishments and issued warnings and violations against 49 other facilities, including restaurants and hotels, for their failure to adhere to COVID-19 preventive health and safety measures.

The monitoring teams intensified their inspection tours on all tourist facilities across the Kingdom, to ensure compliance with the anti-Covid public health and safety measures and monitor the extent of compliance to defense orders, according to a statement issued by the ministry.

In its statement, the ministry called on tourist establishments and customers to abide by defense orders, which include wearing face masks, social distancing and receiving COVID-19 vaccine.