{"id":413316,"date":"2021-05-04T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=413316"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:54:05","slug":"nepal-halts-all-domestic-international-flights-in-effort-to-curb-covid-19-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-halts-all-domestic-international-flights-in-effort-to-curb-covid-19-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal halts all domestic, international flights in effort to curb Covid-19 spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public fury over Nepal\u2019s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travelers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies. <\/p>\n<p>In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As India\u2019s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to third countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public fury over Nepal\u2019s growing wave of coronavirus infections has been rising in the country, with many people blaming travelers from India and several other virus-stricken countries, as well as government ineptitude in handling the pandemic and large political rallies. In response, Nepal announced Sunday that it was halting all domestic and international flights: domestic flights as of midnight, and international flights as of midnight Wednesday. As India\u2019s crisis has worsened over recent weeks, people from several Indian states thronged to Nepal via land and air routes. Some were Nepali migrant workers returning home; others aimed to travel onward to [&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-413316","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\/413316","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=413316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}