{"id":413096,"date":"2021-05-03T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413096"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T03:36:44","slug":"nepal-bans-all-domestic-international-flights-amid-rising-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-bans-all-domestic-international-flights-amid-rising-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal bans all domestic, international flights amid rising Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal on Sunday banned all domestic flights from Monday midnight and all international flights from Wednesday midnight until May 14 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision on flight restrictions are in place until May 14,&#8221; Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi told the Kathmandu Post. &#8220;However, charter flights will be allowed.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nepal has also made quarantine mandatory for everyone arriving in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Foreigners flying into the Kathmandu Valley are subject to a mandatory 10-day quarantine in hotels upon arrival. A negative polymerase chain reaction test result obtained within 72 hours prior to departure from the country of origin is required for entry into Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal on Sunday banned all domestic flights from Monday midnight and all international flights from Wednesday midnight until May 14 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. &#8220;The decision on flight restrictions are in place until May 14,&#8221; Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi told the Kathmandu Post. &#8220;However, charter flights will be allowed.&#8221; Nepal has also made quarantine mandatory for everyone arriving in the country. Foreigners flying into the Kathmandu Valley are subject to a mandatory 10-day quarantine in hotels upon arrival. A negative polymerase chain reaction test result obtained within 72 hours prior to departure from the country of origin is [&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-413096","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\/413096","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=413096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}