{"id":39384,"date":"2021-12-01T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/older-unvaccinated-people-should-delay-travel-says-who-as-omicron-curbs-spread"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:06:10","slug":"older-unvaccinated-people-should-delay-travel-says-who-as-omicron-restrictions-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39384","title":{"rendered":"Older unvaccinated people should delay travel, says WHO, as Omicron restrictions spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US, Japan and Singapore tighten rules for travellers but WHO says \u2018blanket bans\u2019 won\u2019t contain the new Covid strain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/01\/covid-news-live-who-advises-vulnerable-against-travel-over-omicron-greece-to-fine-those-over-60-who-refuse-vaccine\">Follow updates in the pandemic here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization has said those not fully vaccinated who are vulnerable to Covid-19, including over-60s, should delay travel to areas with community transmission, as more countries imposed curbs to combat the spread of the new Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>The moves came as the WHO said \u201cblanket bans\u201d would not contain the strain of the virus which it previously warned presents a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/omicron-covid-variant-poses-very-high-global-risk-says-who\">\u201cvery high\u201d risk globally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/older-unvaccinated-people-should-delay-travel-says-who-as-omicron-curbs-spread\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, Japan and Singapore tighten rules for travellers but WHO says \u2018blanket bans\u2019 won\u2019t contain the new Covid strainFollow updates in the pandemic hereSee all our coronavirus coverage hereThe World Health Organization has said those not fully vaccinated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2708,"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":[41,1066,299,47,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-science","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384","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\/2708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39394,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384\/revisions\/39394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}