{"id":335649,"date":"2020-02-04T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=335649"},"modified":"2020-02-04T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:31:37","slug":"vietnam-suspends-all-china-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vietnam-suspends-all-china-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam suspends all China flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam has suspended all China flights as part of \u201cstrengthening measures\u201d against the coronavirus outbreak, its civil aviation authority said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The step applies to all airlines \u201cwhich have routes between Vietnam and China\u201d and also includes Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, it added in the directive which was posted on its website and took effect at 1 pm Saturday (0600 GMT). An AFP correspondent on a flight from Taiwan to Vietnam was among 98 passengers told to disembark just as the announcement went public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision is ridiculous and unacceptable,\u201d Vietnamese tourist Doan Thi Ngoc Diep told AFP after leaving the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam has suspended all China flights as part of \u201cstrengthening measures\u201d against the coronavirus outbreak, its civil aviation authority said in a statement on Saturday. The step applies to all airlines \u201cwhich have routes between Vietnam and China\u201d and also includes Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, it added in the directive which was posted on its website and took effect at 1 pm Saturday (0600 GMT). An AFP correspondent on a flight from Taiwan to Vietnam was among 98 passengers told to disembark just as the announcement went public. \u201cThe decision is ridiculous and unacceptable,\u201d Vietnamese tourist Doan Thi Ngoc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}