{"id":40619,"date":"2022-01-14T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/philippines-accused-of-being-anti-poor-with-public-transport-ban-on-covid-unvaccinated"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:17:48","slug":"philippines-accused-of-being-anti-poor-with-public-transport-ban-on-covid-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40619","title":{"rendered":"Philippines accused of being \u2018anti-poor\u2019 with public transport ban on Covid unvaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups say the ban penalises those who cannot travel in a private vehicle or work from home<\/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 Philippine government has defended a controversial ban that prevents unvaccinated people from using public transport in the capital of Manila, denying that the policy is \u201canti-poor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cno vaccination, no ride\u201d policy is designed to curb a recent wave of Covid infections and applies to all modes of transport to and from Metro Manila, including public buses, jeepneys, rail, boats and planes. The policy will be fully implemented from Monday, according to local media, when passengers will be required to show proof of vaccination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/14\/philippines-accused-of-being-anti-poor-with-public-transport-ban-on-covid-unvaccinated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups say the ban penalises those who cannot travel in a private vehicle or work from homeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Philippine government has defended a controversial ban that prevents unvaccinated people f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,1066,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40620,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619\/revisions\/40620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}