{"id":1860,"date":"2021-11-27T20:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:27:23","slug":"covid-19-variant-mauritius-to-stop-flights-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/covid-19-variant-mauritius-to-stop-flights-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 variant: Mauritius to stop flights from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from November 28 due to the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, its foreign affairs ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ministry statement also said any passengers who have been physically present in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe will be denied entry or transit through Mauritius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South African Airways, which restarted operations in September, said on Twitter it will stop flights to Mauritius as a result of the suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mauritius, whose economy largely relies on tourism, has 20,913 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 240 deaths reported since the pandemic began, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius will suspend all commercial passenger flights from South Africa from November 28 due to the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, its foreign affairs ministry said &#8230; <a title=\"COVID-19 variant: Mauritius to stop flights from South Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/covid-19-variant-mauritius-to-stop-flights-from-south-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about COVID-19 variant: Mauritius to stop flights from South Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[501],"tags":[732,24,733,686],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-covid-19-variants","tag-flatnews","tag-mauritius","tag-south-africa","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}