{"id":411626,"date":"2021-04-23T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411626"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:26:50","slug":"covid-19-canada-bans-flights-from-india-and-pakistan-for-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-canada-bans-flights-from-india-and-pakistan-for-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Canada bans flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada suspended all passenger flights from India and Pakistan on Thursday for 30 days, Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra announced, citing increased Covid-19 cases detected in travellers arriving from these countries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the higher number of cases of Covid-19 detected in air passengers arriving in Canada from India and Pakistan&#8230; I am suspending all commercial and private passenger flights arriving in Canada from Indian and Pakistan for 30 days,&#8221; Alghabra told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a temporary measure, while we assess the evolving situation and determine appropriate measures going forward,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>The restriction will go into effect at 11:30 pm Eastern Time Thursday (0330 GMT Friday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada suspended all passenger flights from India and Pakistan on Thursday for 30 days, Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra announced, citing increased Covid-19 cases detected in travellers arriving from these countries. &#8220;Given the higher number of cases of Covid-19 detected in air passengers arriving in Canada from India and Pakistan&#8230; I am suspending all commercial and private passenger flights arriving in Canada from Indian and Pakistan for 30 days,&#8221; Alghabra told a news conference. &#8220;This is a temporary measure, while we assess the evolving situation and determine appropriate measures going forward,&#8221; he added. The restriction will go into effect at 11:30 [&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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411626","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=411626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}