{"id":8003,"date":"2020-02-11T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"air-travel-restrictions-wont-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/11\/air-travel-restrictions-wont-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel Restrictions Won\u2019t Protect Us From The Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cities in lock down, flights and public transport suspended, travellers in quarantine and surgical masks selling at unprecedented rates. The emergence of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-how-health-and-politics-have-always-been-inextricably-linked-in-china-130720\">novel coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China, as well as its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/01\/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html\">rapid arrival<\/a>&nbsp;in 25 other countries and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\">World Health Organization (WHO)\u2018s declaration<\/a>&nbsp;of a public health emergency of international concern have once again focused attention on aviation\u2019s role in the spread of human infectious disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\">As of February 6<\/a>, more than 28,000 cases and 566 deaths had been reported in China, with additional confirmed cases in countries including Thailand, Japan, Australia, the US, UAE, Germany and the UK.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/air-travel-restrictions-wont-protect-us-from-the-coronavirus-131237\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities in lock down, flights and public transport suspended, travellers in quarantine and surgical masks selling at unprecedented rates. The emergence of the&nbsp;novel coronavirus&nbsp;in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China, as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[330,438],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-china","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}