{"id":452529,"date":"2021-11-29T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452529"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:59:28","slug":"bangladesh-suspends-travel-from-south-africa-amid-fears-of-new-covid-19-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bangladesh-suspends-travel-from-south-africa-amid-fears-of-new-covid-19-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh suspends travel from South Africa amid fears of new Covid-19 variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh on Saturday suspended travel from South Africa immediately, joining a growing list of countries banning travel to the country amid fears of the spread of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant, first detected there. <\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s Minister of Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque said that they are aware of the emergence of the new variant and have decided to suspend travel from South Africa, bdnews24.com reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new variant is extremely aggressive and so we are suspending travel from South Africa immediately,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also strengthening screening procedures at all airports and land ports,\u201d he was quoted as saying in the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh on Saturday suspended travel from South Africa immediately, joining a growing list of countries banning travel to the country amid fears of the spread of the new Covid-19 Omicron variant, first detected there. Bangladesh&#8217;s Minister of Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque said that they are aware of the emergence of the new variant and have decided to suspend travel from South Africa, bdnews24.com reported. \u201cThis new variant is extremely aggressive and so we are suspending travel from South Africa immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are also strengthening screening procedures at all airports and land ports,\u201d he was quoted as [&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-452529","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\/452529","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=452529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}