{"id":114723,"date":"2021-05-31T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114723"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T22:55:09","slug":"sri-lanka-bars-air-passengers-with-14-day-travel-history-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/05\/31\/sri-lanka-bars-air-passengers-with-14-day-travel-history-to-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka bars air passengers with 14-day travel history to Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority says that passengers with a travel history to Vietnam, including transit, in the past 14 days will not be permitted to disembark in Sri Lanka with immediate effect until further notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka Themiya Abeywickrama says that all airlines have been informed of this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported yesterday that Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that\u2019s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnamese health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said lab tests suggested it might spread more easily than other versions of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long says the new variant could be responsible for a recent surge in Vietnam, which has spread to 30 of the country\u2019s 63 municipalities and provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 06, Sri Lanka had also decided to bar airline passengers with a travel history to India within the last 14 days due to the record rise in COVID-19 cases in the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Civil Aviation Authority says that passengers with a travel history to Vietnam, including transit, in the past 14 days will not be permitted to disembark in Sri Lanka with immediate effect until further notice.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka Themiya Abeywickrama says that all airlines have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}