{"id":321098,"date":"2020-03-17T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T07:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321098"},"modified":"2020-03-17T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T07:35:16","slug":"india-bans-entry-of-passengers-from-malaysia-afghanistan-philippines-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-bans-entry-of-passengers-from-malaysia-afghanistan-philippines-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"India bans entry of passengers from Malaysia, Afghanistan, Philippines amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319598 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport.jpg 471w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/airport-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>The government on Tuesday announced that it has banned the entry of passengers from Malaysia, Afghanistan and Philippines to India with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In continuation of the travel advisory issued on March 11 and March 16, the following additional advisory has been issued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTravel of passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines, Malaysia to India is prohibited with immediate effect. No flight shall take off from these countries to India after 1500 hours Indian Standard Time (IST). The airline shall enforce this at the port of initial departure,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis instruction is a temporary measure and shall be in force till 31st March and will be reviewed subsequently,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The coronavirus cases in India has risen to 126 on Tuesday, according to Health Ministry website.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Tuesday announced that it has banned the entry of passengers from Malaysia, Afghanistan and Philippines to India with immediate effect. In continuation of the travel advisory issued on March 11 and March 16, the following additional advisory has been issued. \u201cTravel of passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines, Malaysia to India is prohibited with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,574,12766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321099,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321098\/revisions\/321099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}