{"id":25971,"date":"2020-12-19T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2020-12-19T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:54:57","slug":"ministers-meet-today-to-discuss-new-lockdown-london-and-south-east-could-be-cut-off-by-travel-ban-as-matt-hancock-pushes-for-new-restrictions-to-fight-50pc-more-infectious-mutant-covid-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/ministers-meet-today-to-discuss-new-lockdown-london-and-south-east-could-be-cut-off-by-travel-ban-as-matt-hancock-pushes-for-new-restrictions-to-fight-50pc-more-infectious-mutant-covid-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers meet today to discuss new lockdown: London and South East could be cut off by travel ban as Matt Hancock pushes for new restrictions to fight 50pc more infectious mutant Covid strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24828\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-300x206.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-300x206.gif 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-770x527.gif 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-500x343.gif 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-360x247.gif 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>London and the South East could be &#8216;cut off&#8217; from the rest of the UK with potential travel bans as a new &#8216;highly contagious&#8217;\u00a0<a id=\"mol-22908040-4195-11eb-9b91-adebe20d56de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a> variant rips through the region. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9069521\/London-south-east-cut-rest-UK.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>London and the South East could be &#8216;cut off&#8217; from the rest of the UK with potential travel bans as a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25972,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions\/25972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}