{"id":64707,"date":"2021-05-01T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/news\/?p=64707"},"modified":"2021-05-01T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:56:05","slug":"biden-bans-most-travel-to-us-from-india-to-limit-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/2021\/05\/01\/biden-bans-most-travel-to-us-from-india-to-limit-covid-19-spread.html","title":{"rendered":"Biden bans most travel to US from India to limit Covid-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxBQF3-OpG82AZOw8GM5CZ1eMlSH9-hK7wUQ&amp;usqp=CAU\" width=\"267\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C., May 01 (KMS): United States President Joe Biden has imposed new travel restrictions on India in light of the Covid-19 epidemic, barring most non-US citizens from entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions, which take effect on Tuesday, May 4 at 12:01am ET, are on the advice of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and were imposed because \u201cthe magnitude and scope of the Covid-19 pandemic\u201d in India was \u201csurging,\u201d the White House said, according to Reuters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proclamation said India \u201caccounts for over one-third of new global cases\u201d and added that \u201cproactive measures are required to protect the nation&#8217;s public health from travellers entering the United States\u201d from India. &#8212; Courtesy Dawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C., May 01 (KMS): United States President Joe Biden has imposed new travel restrictions on India in light of the Covid-19 epidemic, barring most non-US citizens from entering the United States. The new restrictions, which take effect on Tuesday, May 4 at 12:01am ET, are on the advice of the US Centres for Disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmsnews.org\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}