{"id":31473,"date":"2021-04-27T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/27\/scott-morrison-announces-india-flight-suspension-due-to-covid-crisis-leaving-thousands-in-limbo"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:08:06","slug":"scott-morrison-announces-india-flight-suspension-due-to-covid-crisis-leaving-thousands-in-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31473","title":{"rendered":"Scott Morrison announces India flight suspension due to Covid crisis, leaving thousands in limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision leaves more than 9,000 Australian citizens who have registered with Dfat stuck, 650 of whom are considered vulnerable<\/p>\n<p>Australia will immediately suspend all passenger flights from India and send an initial humanitarian support package to the Covid-ravaged country, including supplies of oxygen concentrators and personal protection equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the measures as an \u201cinitial package of support\u201d with more aid to follow, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, said a meeting of the national security committee of cabinet had agreed to further restrict flights given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/india-reportedly-running-out-of-vaccines-amid-covid-surge\">the worsening situation in India over the past week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/27\/scott-morrison-announces-india-flight-suspension-due-to-covid-crisis-leaving-thousands-in-limbo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision leaves more than 9,000 Australian citizens who have registered with Dfat stuck, 650 of whom are considered vulnerableAustralia will immediately suspend all passenger flights from India and send an initial humanitarian support package to the Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":699,"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":[43,1066,62,386,61,565,854],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-western-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473","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\/699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions\/31474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}