{"id":452627,"date":"2021-11-29T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452627"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:55:50","slug":"pm-briefed-about-omicron-asks-officials-to-review-plans-to-ease-intl-travel-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-briefed-about-omicron-asks-officials-to-review-plans-to-ease-intl-travel-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"PM briefed about \u2018Omicron&#8217;; asks officials to review plans to ease int&#8217;l travel restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday briefed about the new &#8216;Omicron&#8217; variant of the coronavirus, and he asked officials to review the plans to ease international travel restrictions in light of the &#8220;emerging new evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting to review the Covid situation, Modi was briefed about the global trends on coronavirus cases and officials highlighted that countries across the world have experienced multiple COVID-19 surges since the onset of the pandemic, a Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) statement said.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the officials briefed the prime minister about the new variant of concern, \u2018Omicron&#8217;, along with its characteristics and the impact seen in various countries, the PMO said, adding that its implications for India were also discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday briefed about the new &#8216;Omicron&#8217; variant of the coronavirus, and he asked officials to review the plans to ease international travel restrictions in light of the &#8220;emerging new evidence&#8221;. At a meeting to review the Covid situation, Modi was briefed about the global trends on coronavirus cases and officials highlighted that countries across the world have experienced multiple COVID-19 surges since the onset of the pandemic, a Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) statement said. During the meeting, the officials briefed the prime minister about the new variant of concern, \u2018Omicron&#8217;, along with its characteristics [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452627","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\/452627","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=452627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}