{"id":39341,"date":"2021-11-30T03:27:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/some-countries-opt-for-caution-as-omicron-covid-variant-spreads"},"modified":"2021-11-30T03:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:27:44","slug":"omicron-covid-variant-prompts-nervous-governments-to-impose-travel-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39341","title":{"rendered":"Omicron Covid variant prompts nervous governments to impose travel curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Israel and Australia bring in tough travel measures; Joe Biden says variant is \u2018cause for concern, not for panic\u2019<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/vaccine-resistant-what-scientists-know-new-covid-variant\">Omicron variant<\/a> of coronavirus has been detected in several more countries, prompting nervous governments to impose tough travel restrictions to try to keep it at bay while scientists race to establish how dangerous it might be.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden said on Monday that the variant was \u201ca cause for concern, not for panic\u201d. He urged Americans to get vaccinated \u2013 including with a booster shot \u2013 as soon as they were eligible, and to wear masks in public places.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/some-countries-opt-for-caution-as-omicron-covid-variant-spreads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Israel and Australia bring in tough travel measures; Joe Biden says variant is \u2018cause for concern, not for panic\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected in several more cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"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":[43,1066,1005,88,532,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-israel","category-japan","category-south-africa","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","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\/39341","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\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39342,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39341\/revisions\/39342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}