{"id":390985,"date":"2020-12-23T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=390985"},"modified":"2020-12-23T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:06:21","slug":"uk-flight-ban-due-to-new-covid-strain-will-impact-tourism-in-goa-cm-sawant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-flight-ban-due-to-new-covid-strain-will-impact-tourism-in-goa-cm-sawant\/","title":{"rendered":"UK flight ban due to new Covid strain will impact tourism in Goa: CM Sawant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of inbound flights from the UK due to the emergence of a new, highly infectious Covid-19 strain in the island nation, will have an impact on tourism in Goa, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sawant also said that the flights from other countries affected by the second wave of Covid-19 may also be cancelled over the next few days. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it will impact (tourism). Today, UK flights have been cancelled,&#8221; Sawant said, when asked if the temporary ban on flights from the UK would impact the tourism sector in Goa. After Russia, UK ranks second in the list of countries as far as international tourist footfalls in Goa are concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of inbound flights from the UK due to the emergence of a new, highly infectious Covid-19 strain in the island nation, will have an impact on tourism in Goa, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sawant also said that the flights from other countries affected by the second wave of Covid-19 may also be cancelled over the next few days. &#8220;Of course it will impact (tourism). Today, UK flights have been cancelled,&#8221; Sawant said, when asked if the temporary ban on flights from the UK would impact the tourism sector in Goa. After [&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-390985","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\/390985","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=390985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}