{"id":94,"date":"2021-04-20T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2021-04-20T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:45:14","slug":"travel-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/travel-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Travel Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"block-c13cd7-ae\" class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container block-c13cd7-ae\"><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container-row wp-block-gutenbee-container-md\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-column block-284d2e-7f\"><style>.wp-block-gutenbee-column.block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n\n\n      @media (max-width: 991px) {\n        .wp-block-gutenbee-column.block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n      }\n\n\n      @media (max-width: 575px) {\n        .wp-block-gutenbee-column.block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n      }<\/style><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-column-content\">\n<style>.wp-block-gutenbee-paragraph.block-164bb9-19 { margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 30px 30px 30px 30px; }<\/style><p id=\"block-164bb9-19\" class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-paragraph block-164bb9-19\" style=\"background-color:#f9f9f9;border-radius:4px\">Use a page like this to display COVID-19 travel policy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container-background\" data-parallax-speed=\"0.3\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and regions have imposed quarantines, entry bans, or other restrictions for citizens of or recent travelers to the most affected areas.&nbsp;Other countries and regions have imposed global restrictions that apply to all foreign countries and territories, or prevent their own citizens from travelling overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with a decreased willingness to travel, the restrictions have had a&nbsp;negative economic&nbsp;and&nbsp;social impact&nbsp;on the travel sector in those regions. A possible long-term impact has been a decline of&nbsp;business travel&nbsp;and international conferencing, and the rise of their virtual, online equivalents.&nbsp;Concerns have been raised over the effectiveness of travel restrictions to contain the spread of&nbsp;COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;European Union&nbsp;rejected the idea of suspending the&nbsp;Schengen free travel zone&nbsp;and introducing border controls with Italy,&nbsp;a decision which has been criticised by some European politicians.&nbsp;After some EU member states announced complete closure of their national borders to foreign nationals,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Travel_restrictions_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic#cite_note-8\"> <\/a><\/sup>the&nbsp;European Commission&nbsp;President&nbsp;Ursula von der Leyen&nbsp;said that &#8220;Certain controls may be justified, but general travel bans are not seen as being the most effective by the World Health Organization.&#8221;&nbsp;A few days later the EU closed its external borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study in&nbsp;Science&nbsp;found that travel restrictions had only modest effects, delaying the initial spread of COVID-19, unless combined with&nbsp;infection prevention and control&nbsp;measures to considerably reduce transmissions.&nbsp;Researchers came to the conclusion that &#8220;travel restrictions are most useful in the early and late phase of an epidemic&#8221; and &#8220;restrictions of travel from Wuhan unfortunately came too late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and regions have imposed quarantines, entry bans, or other restrictions for citizens of or recent travelers to the most affected areas.&nbsp;Other countries and regions have imposed global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth-narrow.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdemo.unitednet.com.hk\/demo\/milos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}