{"id":452514,"date":"2021-11-29T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452514"},"modified":"2021-11-29T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:26:52","slug":"new-coronavirus-variant-in-south-africa-these-countries-are-banning-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-coronavirus-variant-in-south-africa-these-countries-are-banning-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"New coronavirus variant in South Africa: These countries are banning flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid European Union\u2019s executive Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s proposal to ban air travel from southern Africa, several member states are swiftly moving to stop international flights from the region to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus variant B.1.1529. Experts have warned about the \u201cunusual mutations\u201d in the new variant that has been identified in 22 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Amid European Union\u2019s executive Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s proposal to ban air travel from southern Africa, several member states are swiftly moving to stop international flights from the region to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus variant B.1.1529. Experts have warned about the \u201cunusual mutations\u201d in the new variant that has been identified in 22 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, World Health Organization (WHO) officials rushed to discuss the variant which, experts warn, could affect transmissibility and immune response due to a high number of spike mutations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid European Union\u2019s executive Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s proposal to ban air travel from southern Africa, several member states are swiftly moving to stop international flights from the region to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus variant B.1.1529. Experts have warned about the \u201cunusual mutations\u201d in the new variant that has been identified in 22 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in South Africa. Amid European Union\u2019s executive Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s proposal to ban air travel from southern Africa, several member states are swiftly moving to stop international flights from the region to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452514","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}