{"id":36119,"date":"2021-01-16T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=36119"},"modified":"2021-01-16T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:30:50","slug":"china-imposes-temporary-travel-ban-on-pakistan-passengers-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=36119","title":{"rendered":"China imposes temporary travel ban on Pakistan passengers due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">ANI<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has imposed a temporary travel ban on Pakistani passengers after 10 of them tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>According to Geo News, China has also stopped operating flights from Pakistan\u00a0International\u00a0Airlines (PIA) for three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bsmedia-business--standard-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/i\/s\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/media-handler.php?mediaPath=https:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/img\/article\/2020-12\/18\/full\/1608276685-5308.jpg&amp;width=1200\">China | Representational Image | File Photo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez confirmed that the national carrier has temporarily halted the flights after the development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistani passengers, who travelled to China with a negative coronavirus test report, later tested positive upon arrival, informed the spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, China reported 144 COVID-19 infections, the highest number of cases in over 10 months, due to a severe outbreak in the northeast that has put over 28 million people under lockdown, reported Geo News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North China&#8217;s Hebei Province reported 90 locally transmitted infections and nine asymptomatic cases on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of Thursday, there were 553 locally transmitted confirmed cases and two imported cases being treated in hospitals in Hebei, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan on Friday recorded 2,417 new infections and 45 deaths, reported ARY News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The total COVID-19 caseload in Pakistan stands at 514,338, along with 10,863 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANI China has imposed a temporary travel ban on Pakistani passengers after 10 of them tested positive for COVID-19. According to Geo News, China has also stopped operating flights from Pakistan\u00a0International\u00a0Airlines (PIA) for three weeks. China | Representational Image | File Photo PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez confirmed that the national carrier has temporarily halted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36119","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\/36119","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=36119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}