{"id":30948,"date":"2020-08-08T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30948"},"modified":"2020-08-08T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:52:06","slug":"pakistan-reopens-international-flights-as-coronavirus-cases-continue-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30948","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reopens international flights as coronavirus cases continue to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/n_670_395\/public\/2020\/08\/08\/2221446-84356896.jpg?itok=Tih8CfXh\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>A complete ban on domestic and international commercial flights was imposed in March when Pakistan enforced a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. (AFP file photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1716491\/world\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Islamabad<\/strong>: Pakistan has announced that it will allow the full resumption of all types of international flights to and from the country\u2019s airports from Sunday amid a steady decline in COVID-19 deaths and infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement comes weeks after Pakistan partially reopened its airports for domestic and international commercial flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week authorities allowed to resumption of domestic flights from all of the country\u2019s airports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A complete ban on domestic and international commercial flights was imposed in March when Pakistan enforced a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Later, the restrictions were gradually eased and Pakistan witnessed a peak in virus deaths and infections in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan on Saturday reported only 14 fatalities from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising its total COVID-19-related fatalities to 6,068.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Islamabad: Pakistan has announced that it will allow the full resumption of all types of international flights to and from the country\u2019s airports from Sunday amid a steady decline in COVID-19 deaths and infections. The announcement comes weeks after Pakistan partially reopened its airports for domestic and international commercial flights. Earlier this week authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}