{"id":111,"date":"2020-09-21T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cssigniter.com\/demos\/aegean-resort\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2020-09-21T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:11:54","slug":"covid-19-travel-update","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/covid-19-travel-update\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Travel Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-c13cd7-ae\" class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container\"><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container-inner\"><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-container-row wp-block-gutenbee-container-md\">\n<div id=\"block-284d2e-7f\" class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-column\"><style>#block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n\n\n      @media (max-width: 991px) {\n        #block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n      }\n\n\n      @media (max-width: 575px) {\n        #block-284d2e-7f { flex-basis: 100%; }\n      }<\/style><div class=\"wp-block-gutenbee-column-content\" style=\"background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:top center;background-attachment:scroll\">\n<style>#block-164bb9-19 {   margin-bottom: 0px;  }\n#block-164bb9-19 { padding: 30px 30px 30px 30px; }<\/style><p id=\"block-164bb9-19\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1\">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\" style=\"background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:cover;background-position:top center;background-attachment:scroll\"><\/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>","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-boxed.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evergreenthassos.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}