{"id":395707,"date":"2021-01-16T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395707"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:41:56","slug":"airlines-cull-south-africa-routes-as-virus-flares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-cull-south-africa-routes-as-virus-flares\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines cull South Africa routes as virus flares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several international airlines have streamlined flights to South Africa this week following travel restrictions meant to limit the spread of a new coronavirus variant fuelling a rapid infection resurge.<\/p>\n<p>A growing list of countries are limiting travel to and from South Africa since a more transmissible variant of the virus, dubbed 501Y.V2, was announced in December.<\/p>\n<p>The new border closures have forced major airlines to either suspend or reduce flights in and out of Africa&#8217;s most industrialised economy.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates this week announced a 13-day halt on all South Africa routes for &#8220;operational reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several international airlines have streamlined flights to South Africa this week following travel restrictions meant to limit the spread of a new coronavirus variant fuelling a rapid infection resurge. A growing list of countries are limiting travel to and from South Africa since a more transmissible variant of the virus, dubbed 501Y.V2, was announced in December. The new border closures have forced major airlines to either suspend or reduce flights in and out of Africa&#8217;s most industrialised economy. Emirates this week announced a 13-day halt on all South Africa routes for &#8220;operational reasons&#8221;.<\/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-395707","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\/395707","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=395707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}