{"id":365466,"date":"2020-07-30T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365466"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T05:07:16","slug":"heathrow-tells-uk-do-passenger-testing-or-lose-quarantine-roulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heathrow-tells-uk-do-passenger-testing-or-lose-quarantine-roulette\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow tells UK: Do passenger testing or lose &#8216;quarantine roulette&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Heathrow Airport, once Europe&#8217;s busiest airport, called on Britain to urgently back a passenger testing regime, warning that without one, the country&#8217;s strict quarantine rules will stop travel, stall the economy and lead to more job losses. <\/p>\n<p>Heathrow said that to avoid losing a game of global &#8220;quarantine roulette&#8221;, the government should change its rules to cut quarantine from 14 days to around eight days for passengers who take two tests over the course of a week. <\/p>\n<p>The worst public health crisis since the 1918 influenza outbreak has wrought economic turmoil across the world and just as the travel industry restarted there are now fears of a second wave of shutdowns after Britain hastily imposed a quarantine on travellers from Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Heathrow Airport, once Europe&#8217;s busiest airport, called on Britain to urgently back a passenger testing regime, warning that without one, the country&#8217;s strict quarantine rules will stop travel, stall the economy and lead to more job losses. Heathrow said that to avoid losing a game of global &#8220;quarantine roulette&#8221;, the government should change its rules to cut quarantine from 14 days to around eight days for passengers who take two tests over the course of a week. The worst public health crisis since the 1918 influenza outbreak has wrought economic turmoil across the world and just as [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365466","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=365466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}