{"id":16015,"date":"2020-03-18T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/coronavirus-travellers-race-home-amid-worldwide-border-closures-and-flight-warnings"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T06:07:39","slug":"coronavirus-travellers-race-home-amid-worldwide-border-closures-and-flight-warnings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16015","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: travellers race home amid worldwide border closures and flight warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of nations are shutting airports as global Covid-19 infection cases near 200,000 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Travellers across the world are scrambling to find flights home as governments urged their citizens to return and some nations announced the imminent closure of airports and borders.<\/p>\n<p>As coronavirus cases near 200,000 globally, a growing number of countries have imposed lockdowns and barred entry to foreigners. As a result, passengers around the world are navigating rapidly changing travel advice, high fares and cancelled flights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/18\/coronavirus-travellers-race-home-amid-worldwide-border-closures-and-flight-warnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of nations are shutting airports as global Covid-19 infection cases near 200,000 Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTravellers across the world are scrambling to find flights home as governments urged their cit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,43,244,1069,156,914,56,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-australia-news","category-canada","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}