{"id":45748,"date":"2021-12-06T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=45748"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:29:52","slug":"omicron-travel-restrictions-will-come-in-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/omicron-travel-restrictions-will-come-in-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron: travel restrictions will come in on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From 4am Tuesday 7 December, anyone aged 12 and above who wish to travel to the UK will need to show a negative pre-departure test result (LFD or PCR) in no more than 48 hours before departure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This travel rule is based on the emerging evidence of th<a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/what-is-omicron-and-will-it-affect-christmas\/\">e Omicron variant<\/a> and will hopefully slow down the importation of the new disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, said: \u201cWe appreciate this will be difficult for the travel sector, it\u2019s important we prioritise public health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/b5uEkqX9QWY\n<\/div><figcaption>Pandemic prevention measures at Heathrow airport |Video by Zhen Guo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysis from the UKHSA suggests that majority of Omicron cases identified in the UK are linked to travel from South Africa and Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria is on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/red-list-of-countries-and-territories\"> UK\u2019s travel red list.<\/a> People from red list countries must book and stay in managed quarantine hotel for 10 full days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel rules can change at any time, click the link and find out your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\">overseas travel advice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words and Video: Zhen Guo | Subbing: Yuet Ka Chu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 4am Tuesday 7 December, anyone aged 12 and above who wish to travel to the UK will need to show a negative pre-departure test result (LFD or PCR) in no more than 48 hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":45749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,93,128,130,134],"tags":[1588,7104,6457,6538],"class_list":["post-45748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-top-story","category-travel","category-uknews","tag-covid-19","tag-omicorn","tag-travel","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45775,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions\/45775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}