{"id":452576,"date":"2021-11-29T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452576"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:53:58","slug":"eu-wants-to-stop-flights-from-southern-africa-over-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-wants-to-stop-flights-from-southern-africa-over-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wants to stop flights from southern Africa over variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union said Friday it is planning to stop air travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant as the 27-nation bloc is battling a massive spike in cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing we need is to bring in a new variant that will cause even more problems,&#8221; said German Health Minister Jens Spahn.<\/p>\n<p>EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that she &#8220;proposes, in close coordination with the member states, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union said Friday it is planning to stop air travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant as the 27-nation bloc is battling a massive spike in cases. &#8220;The last thing we need is to bring in a new variant that will cause even more problems,&#8221; said German Health Minister Jens Spahn. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that she &#8220;proposes, in close coordination with the member states, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region.&#8221;<\/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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452576","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=452576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}