{"id":81688,"date":"2020-03-19T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewofa.com\/?p=81688"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T03:46:30","slug":"thursday-travel-bans-latest-us-canada-border-closes-nz-follows-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/2020\/03\/thursday-travel-bans-latest-us-canada-border-closes-nz-follows-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday travel bans latest: US-Canada border closes, NZ follows Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has announced it will be temporarily closing its border with Canada in an apparent mutual decision aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has followed Australia in elevating all the country\u2019s travel advisories to level four, or \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you have just returned to Canada:<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Selfisolate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Selfisolate<\/a> for 14 days<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f No visitors<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f Monitor your health<br \/>\u2714\ufe0f Wash your hands and cover your coughs.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ofYA9J4E10\">https:\/\/t.co\/ofYA9J4E10<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7nSv7ZZ32T\">pic.twitter.com\/7nSv7ZZ32T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Health Canada and PHAC (@GovCanHealth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovCanHealth\/status\/1240291976299327488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">\u201cThis is the first time the New Zealand government has advised New Zealanders against travelling anywhere overseas,\u201d Minister Peters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">\u201cThat reflects the seriousness of the situation we are facing with COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">New Zealand has recorded another eight cases of COVID-19 but the country is still without a recorded case of community transmission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph enqfv0t0\">Health officials have now confirmed 28 cases of coronavirus, including a Queensland man who had the test in Australia before travelling to New Zealand with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Existing travel restrictions are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Australia\u00a0<\/strong>will require \u201call people\u201d arriving in the country after midnight local time Monday to self-quarantine for 14 days, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday at a news conference. Passengers who have been in China, Iran, South Korea or Italy in the last 14 days are not allowed to enter or transit through Australia for 14 days, from the time they exited those countries. This does not apply to airline crew, Australian nationals and their immediate family members, or New Zealand nationals resident in Australia, who are instead required to self-isolate for 14 days. <strong>(Updated) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has now advised all citizens not to leave the country to travel anywhere internationally.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Canada<\/strong> will bar entry to almost all travelers who are not citizens or permanent residents in an escalated effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The ban will not apply to diplomats, aircrew and immediate family members of Canadian citizens. <strong>(Updated)<\/strong> <strong>The Canada-US border is now closed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Paragraph__component\"><strong>China:<\/strong> Beijing has announced a 14-day mandatory quarantine on all international travelers arriving in the Chinese capital. Meanwhile, international business travelers will be required to stay at a select number of designated hotels in Beijing where they will be tested for the virus. They will not be allowed to leave until their test results have been returned.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Germany: (Updated)<\/strong>\u00a0Starting 16 March, Germany will close its borders with Austria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, the country\u2019s interior minister said on 15 March.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hong Kong:<\/strong>\u00a0Passengers who have been in or through South Korea or China\u2019s Hubei province in the past 14 days are not allowed to enter Hong Kong, and neither are Chinese nationals with a passport issued in Hubei. Hong Kong nationals and residents are exempt. Instead, they face a 14-day mandatory quarantine. Passengers arriving from or having been in China, Iran or Italy\u2019s Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto regions in the past 14 days are subject to the quarantine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India<\/strong>\u00a0is now suspending all tourist visas and enforcing a 14-day quarantine on all travelers, including returning Indian nationals, arriving from or having visited China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, South Korea and Spain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Italy:<\/strong>\u00a0Passengers arriving as tourists are not allowed to enter via airports in the following areas: Alessandria, Asti, Lombardy, Modena, Novara, Padova, Parma, Pesaro and Urbino, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Treviso-Venice, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Vercelli.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Japan<\/strong>\u00a0is banning entry for passengers who have been in affected regions of China, South Korea or Italy within the last 14 days. Japanese nationals are exempt, as are their spouses and children, if the relations are verified.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Zealand<\/strong>\u00a0Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on 14 March that all travellers entering the country will be required to \u201cself-isolate\u201d for 14 days. The new measures went into effect at midnight on 15 March local time and apply to nearly every traveller, regardless of nationality, including New Zealand citizens and residents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia:<\/strong>\u00a0Nationals of China, Hong Kong, Macau, Iran and Italy are not allowed in Russia, but exemptions are made for airline crew and foreign nationals resident in Russia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saudi Arabia:<\/strong>\u00a0Umrah pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina are under a temporary ban, unless the pilgrims are nationals of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates who have obtained permits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spain:<\/strong>\u00a0A state of emergency has already been declared in Spain and strict lockdown policies including restrictions on travel in and out of the country are expected. On Saturday, at least five Spain-bound airplanes belonging to low-cost carrier Jet2 turned back to the UK mid-air. The company said it was acting in response to measures introduced by the Spanish government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Singapore:<\/strong>\u00a0From midnight on Monday local time, all travellers entering Singapore with recent travel history to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, Japan, Switzerland or the UK within the last 14 days will be issued with a 14-day \u201cStay-Home Notice\u201d and will have to provide proof of the place where they will stay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Turkey:<\/strong>\u00a0Turkey has halted travel to and from nine European countries: Germany, Spain, France, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. Nationals of those countries are not allowed to enter the country.\u00a0<strong>(Updated)<\/strong>\u00a0On March 16, the Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a news briefing the country would also suspend flights to and from the UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">.<\/strong>\u00a0The flights will be stopped as of 8am local time on 17 March.<\/li>\n<li><strong>UK: (Updated)<\/strong>\u00a0Officials in the UK are monitoring direct flights into the country from certain areas, according to the US embassy, and informing incoming passengers about how to report any symptoms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>US: <\/strong>The US has banned travel from the China, Europe, Iran and the UK and Ireland. <strong>(Updated) The US-Canada border is now closed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has announced it will be temporarily closing its border with Canada in an apparent mutual decision aimed at slowing the spread of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":68496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,33,19,1],"tags":[292,1380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofaviation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}