{"id":452628,"date":"2021-11-29T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452628"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:56:22","slug":"sa-slams-18-countries-imposing-travel-bans-on-fears-of-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sa-slams-18-countries-imposing-travel-bans-on-fears-of-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"SA slams 18 countries imposing travel bans on fears of Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s top health federation on Sunday slammed the 18 nations which have imposed travel bans on the country on fears of the new potentially highly-transmissible variant of Covid-19, Omicron, saying the world must avoid such \u201cknee-jerk reaction\u201d if it wants \u201ctransparency\u201d in the sharing of critical medical data.<\/p>\n<p>The new Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529, first detected in South Africa, was on Friday designated as a \u201cVariant of Concern\u201d by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which named it \u201cOmicron\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by 18 countries to ban flights to and from South Africa was premature, as there is still not enough information on how dangerous the variant might be, Angelique Coetzee, Chairman of South African Medical Association (SAMA) said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s top health federation on Sunday slammed the 18 nations which have imposed travel bans on the country on fears of the new potentially highly-transmissible variant of Covid-19, Omicron, saying the world must avoid such \u201cknee-jerk reaction\u201d if it wants \u201ctransparency\u201d in the sharing of critical medical data. The new Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529, first detected in South Africa, was on Friday designated as a \u201cVariant of Concern\u201d by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which named it \u201cOmicron\u201d. The decision by 18 countries to ban flights to and from South Africa was premature, as there is still not enough information [&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-452628","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\/452628","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=452628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}