{"id":31035,"date":"2021-04-17T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/add-india-to-uk-travel-ban-list-to-stop-covid-coronavirus-variant-urges-scientist"},"modified":"2021-04-17T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:42:12","slug":"add-india-to-uk-travel-ban-list-to-stop-covid-variant-urges-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31035","title":{"rendered":"Add India to UK travel ban list to stop Covid variant, urges scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian coronavirus variant has potential to \u2018scupper\u2019 lockdown easing, says professor of immunology<\/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>India should be placed on the UK\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d for travel after the discovery of a new coronavirus variant, according to a leading scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, says it is \u201cmystifying\u201d and \u201cconfounding\u201d that those flying in from the country are not required to stay in a hotel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/17\/add-india-to-uk-travel-ban-list-to-stop-covid-coronavirus-variant-urges-scientist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian coronavirus variant has potential to \u2018scupper\u2019 lockdown easing, says professor of immunologyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia should be placed on the UK\u2019s \u201cred list\u201d for travel after the discovery of a new coronav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2098,"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":[1066,1437,62,914,299,527,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-immunology","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-travel","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035","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\/2098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31057,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035\/revisions\/31057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}