{"id":30521,"date":"2021-04-02T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-england-adds-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-philippines-to-travel-red-list"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:57:43","slug":"covid-england-adds-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-philippines-to-travel-red-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30521","title":{"rendered":"Covid: England adds Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya and Philippines to travel &#8216;red list&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move, which takes effect on Friday 9 April, takes number of countries on red list to 39<\/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>The Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh are to be added to England\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d of countries from which almost all travel is banned, ministers have announced.<\/p>\n<p>The additions, which come into effect next Friday, will take the number of red list countries to 39, as the government battles to prevent potentially vaccine-resistant variants of Covid-19 from coming to the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/02\/covid-england-adds-pakistan-bangladesh-kenya-and-philippines-to-travel-red-list\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move, which takes effect on Friday 9 April, takes number of countries on red list to 39Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh are to be added to England\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d of countries fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"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":[401,41,327,6,1066,1086,60,55,61,527,1088,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-kenya","category-pakistan","category-philippines","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-travel-leisure","category-uk-news","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\/30521","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\/1456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30522,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions\/30522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}