{"id":395848,"date":"2021-01-18T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395848"},"modified":"2021-01-18T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:31:11","slug":"italy-bans-flights-from-brazil-after-covid-variant-detected-in-4-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/italy-bans-flights-from-brazil-after-covid-variant-detected-in-4-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy bans flights from Brazil after Covid variant detected in 4 passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza has signed an order banning direct flights to Italy from Brazil after a new variant of the coronavirus was identified in four passengers arriving from that country. <\/p>\n<p>The ban is effective immediately through January 31, according to the order posted on the website of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I signed an order blocking flights departing from Brazil, and forbidding entry into Italy to anyone who has travelled through Brazil over the past 14 days,&#8221; Speranza wrote in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is mandatory for anyone already in Italy who came from Brazil to contact health authorities and to get tested (for the virus),&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza has signed an order banning direct flights to Italy from Brazil after a new variant of the coronavirus was identified in four passengers arriving from that country. The ban is effective immediately through January 31, according to the order posted on the website of the Ministry of Health on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported. &#8220;I signed an order blocking flights departing from Brazil, and forbidding entry into Italy to anyone who has travelled through Brazil over the past 14 days,&#8221; Speranza wrote in a statement. &#8220;It is mandatory for anyone already in Italy who came [&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-395848","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\/395848","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=395848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}