{"id":41018,"date":"2022-01-24T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/24\/covid-live-news-omicron-could-mean-pandemic-endgame-in-europe-who-says"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:54:09","slug":"covid-live-news-omicron-could-mean-pandemic-endgame-in-europe-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41018","title":{"rendered":"Testing for fully vaccinated travellers to UK to be scrapped; new vaccine pass rules in France \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK transport secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/24\/covid-live-news-omicron-could-mean-pandemic-endgame-in-europe-who-says?page=with:block-61eecda88f08bbb044d3365f#block-61eecda88f08bbb044d3365f\">says testing rules for travellers into country<\/a> will change from 4am on 11 February; new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/24\/covid-live-news-omicron-could-mean-pandemic-endgame-in-europe-who-says?page=with:block-61ee93518f08e28a5d693c7f#block-61ee93518f08e28a5d693c7f\">France rules<\/a> come into force<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/24\/boris-johnsons-lockdown-birthday-party-pm-faces-anger-from-mps-and-bereaved\">Boris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/24\/a-full-list-of-alleged-government-covid-rule-busting-parties\">A full list of alleged UK government Covid rule-busting \u2018parties\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jan\/24\/us-distributes-400m-free-n95-masks-pharmacies\">US to distribute 400m free N95 masks to pharmacies and health centres<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/world-health-organization-funding-who-director-general\">\u2018Paradigm shift\u2019 needed in way WHO is funded, says director general<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/england-to-end-covid-testing-for-double-vaccinated-travellers-says-johnson\">England to end Covid testing for double-vaccinated travellers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jan\/23\/nearly-half-of-first-wave-covid-cases-may-suffer-lasting-harm-to-sense-of-smell\">Half of first-wave Covid cases may have lasting harm to sense of smell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s it from me, Helen Livingstone, for today. I\u2019m handing you over to my colleague Martin Belam.<\/p>\n<p>Before I go, here\u2019s a roundup of what\u2019s been happening over the past 24 hours:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/jan\/24\/covid-live-news-omicron-could-mean-pandemic-endgame-in-europe-who-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK transport secretary says testing rules for travellers into country will change from 4am on 11 February; new France rules come into forceBoris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday partyA full list of alleged UK government Covid rule-bus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2776,"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":[43,888,244,50,1066,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-belgium","category-canada","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/41018","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\/2776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41018\/revisions\/41050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}