{"id":436913,"date":"2021-09-20T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436913"},"modified":"2021-09-20T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:16:01","slug":"uk-scraps-traffic-light-system-to-simplify-international-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-scraps-traffic-light-system-to-simplify-international-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"UK scraps &#8216;traffic light system&#8217; to simplify international travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that the current &#8216;traffic light system&#8217; of red, amber and green countries will be scrapped to simplify international travel amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Under the government&#8217;s plans for overhauling international travel, there will simply be a red list from October 4 and all other countries will be considered &#8220;clear&#8221; for travel, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s changes mean a simpler, more straightforward system. One with less testing and lower costs, allowing more people to travel, see loved ones or conduct business around the world while providing a boost for the travel industry,&#8221; the Transport Secretary said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that the current &#8216;traffic light system&#8217; of red, amber and green countries will be scrapped to simplify international travel amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Under the government&#8217;s plans for overhauling international travel, there will simply be a red list from October 4 and all other countries will be considered &#8220;clear&#8221; for travel, Xinhua news agency reported. &#8220;Today&#8217;s changes mean a simpler, more straightforward system. One with less testing and lower costs, allowing more people to travel, see loved ones or conduct business around the world while providing a boost for the travel industry,&#8221; the [&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-436913","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\/436913","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=436913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}