{"id":454220,"date":"2021-12-06T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454220"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:16:48","slug":"us-makes-negative-test-binding-on-flyers-omicron-now-in-38-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-makes-negative-test-binding-on-flyers-omicron-now-in-38-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"US makes negative test binding on flyers; Omicron now in 38 nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated Covid-19 strain\u2019s spread. <\/p>\n<p>The United States made it mandatory for all incoming passengers to carry a negative Covid-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion as 15 US states reported the presence of the new variant. Though the Delta variant remains the majority of Covid-19 cases nationwide, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC News on Sunday. The new protocol comes into effect from December 6, the CDC said. <\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s health security agency on Sunday reported 86 new cases of the Omicron variant, taking the total number identified so far to 246.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the WHO said, as authorities worldwide rushed to stem the heavily mutated Covid-19 strain\u2019s spread. The United States made it mandatory for all incoming passengers to carry a negative Covid-19 test report or a proof of recovery from the contagion as 15 US states reported the presence of the new variant. Though the Delta variant remains the majority of Covid-19 cases nationwide, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told ABC News on Sunday. The new protocol comes into effect from [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454220","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=454220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}