{"id":397437,"date":"2020-03-12T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=397437"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:21:19","slug":"trump-suspends-travel-from-europe-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/trump-suspends-travel-from-europe-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump suspends travel from Europe to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the &#8220;strong but necessary&#8221; restrictions would not apply to the UK, which has 460 cases of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>A presidential proclamation issued later specified that only travellers from the 26 countries in the Schengen border-free travel area were barred.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves a number of other European countries including Ireland unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe,&#8221; Mr Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight,&#8221; he added. The travel order does not apply to US citizens.<\/p>\n<p>There are 1,135 confirmed cases of the virus across the US, with 38 deaths so far.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump said the European Union had &#8220;failed to take the same precautions&#8221; as the US in fighting the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But he said the &#8220;strong but necessary&#8221; restrictions would not apply to the UK, which has 460 cases of the virus. A presidential proclamation issued later specified that only travellers from the 26 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":397438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397439,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397437\/revisions\/397439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}