{"id":390548,"date":"2020-12-21T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T05:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390548"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T05:26:29","slug":"belgium-suspends-uk-flights-trains-over-new-covid-19-virus-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/belgium-suspends-uk-flights-trains-over-new-covid-19-virus-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium suspends UK flights, trains over new Covid-19 virus variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium is suspending flight and train arrivals from Britain from midnight (2300 GMT) Sunday after the UK detected a coronavirus variant suspected to be more infectious, a government official told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told Belgian television channel VRT the ban will be in place for at least 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt decision came a day after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a lockdown for London and parts of southeast England to at least December 30.<\/p>\n<p>He linked a surge in Covid-19 cases in those areas to the new strain of the coronavirus that he said could be up to 70 percent more infectious than the others seen so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium is suspending flight and train arrivals from Britain from midnight (2300 GMT) Sunday after the UK detected a coronavirus variant suspected to be more infectious, a government official told AFP. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told Belgian television channel VRT the ban will be in place for at least 24 hours. The abrupt decision came a day after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a lockdown for London and parts of southeast England to at least December 30. He linked a surge in Covid-19 cases in those areas to the new strain of the coronavirus that he said could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390548","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}