{"id":51543,"date":"2022-12-30T01:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/uk-ministers-under-pressure-to-screen-china-arrivals-for-covid"},"modified":"2022-12-30T01:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T16:46:29","slug":"uk-ministers-under-pressure-to-screen-china-arrivals-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51543","title":{"rendered":"UK ministers under pressure to screen China arrivals for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and experts call for border testing to be introduced, but others question usefulness of move<\/p>\n<p>Ministers are coming under pressure to screen arrivals from China as the number of Covid-19 cases there continues to surge after Beijing\u2019s abrupt decision to end most of its strict pandemic restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/italy-decrees-travellers-from-china-must-take-covid-tests\">became the latest country<\/a> to impose controls on travellers entering the country from China on Wednesday, demanding that all such arrivals show proof of a negative Covid test.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/29\/uk-ministers-under-pressure-to-screen-china-arrivals-for-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and experts call for border testing to be introduced, but others question usefulness of moveMinisters are coming under pressure to screen arrivals from China as the number of Covid-19 cases there continues to surge after Beijing\u2019s abrupt de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3501,"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":[41,50,1066,346,1059,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-health-policy","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/51543","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\/3501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51544,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51543\/revisions\/51544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}