{"id":42575,"date":"2021-11-26T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42575"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:52:20","slug":"us-to-restrict-travel-from-eight-african-nations-over-new-covid-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42575","title":{"rendered":"US to restrict travel from eight African nations over new COVID concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The U.S. will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries starting on Monday in an effort to control the spread of the new omicron variant of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rrgwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcngvtvj_wzgdggvlvbdsvnjglnjz.html?a=155323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rrgwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcngvtvj_wzgdggvlvbdsvnjglnjz.html?a%3D155323&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638040215063000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xrnCmTrObNFw0VBbQsCaL\">Five things to know about omicron, new COVID-19 &#8216;variant of concern&#8217;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The announcement of a\u00a0COVID-19 variant called B.1.1529 this week by scientists in South Africa, where\u00a0it was first detected,\u00a0has sent\u00a0governments and financial markets around the world reeling.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting on Friday, where it\u00a0designated the new strain, which it called omicron, a &#8220;variant of concern,&#8221; or VOC, a label applied when a particular strain is especially virulent, transmissible or able to defeat public health measures.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. will restrict travel from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42578,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42575\/revisions\/42578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}