{"id":31147,"date":"2021-04-20T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/20\/ministers-urge-heathrow-to-dedicate-terminal-red-list-arrivals-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-04-20T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:52:14","slug":"ministers-urge-heathrow-to-dedicate-terminal-for-red-list-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31147","title":{"rendered":"Ministers urge Heathrow to dedicate terminal for \u2018red list\u2019 arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls to separate passengers come amid fears that Covid variants could spread in airport arrivals halls <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ministers have urged Heathrow airport to dedicate a terminal to processing passengers arriving from \u201cred list\u201d countries, amid fears that the number of people coming from India could swell and create a more dangerous environment for Covid variants to spread.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian understands the Home Office has suggested Terminal 4 be used to separate those who have travelled from places where entry is banned for all apart from UK citizens and residents, and avoid them mixing with people coming from safer countries. Additional Border Force staff would also be provided to help deal with incoming passengers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/20\/ministers-urge-heathrow-to-dedicate-terminal-red-list-arrivals-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls to separate passengers come amid fears that Covid variants could spread in airport arrivals halls Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters have urged Heathrow airport to dedicate a terminal to processing passengers ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2111,"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":[376,665,1066,2111,62,914,61,593,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-airline-industry","category-coronavirus","category-heathrow-airport","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transport","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\/31147","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\/2111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions\/31148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}