{"id":3335,"date":"2020-12-22T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=142224"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:27:14","slug":"uzbekistan-suspends-entrance-for-travelers-from-eight-nations-over-new-covid-19-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/uzbekistan-suspends-entrance-for-travelers-from-eight-nations-over-new-covid-19-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan Suspends Entrance For Travelers From Eight Nations Over New COVID-19 Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/6088f67d-cc29-439b-9dc7-f1074fd3af7a_cx0_cy4_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>TASHKENT &#8212; Tashkent has barred travelers from eight nations from entering the country amid reports about a new coronavirus strain and an increase of COVID-19 cases in those countries.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s special commission on anti-coronavirus efforts said on December 22 that citizens of Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United Kingdom will not be able to enter Central Asia&#8217;s most populous nation of 32 million until January 10.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbek citizens returning from the named countries will be quarantined for 14 days upon their return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These restrictions will be gradually lifted as the epidemiological situation in these countries stabilizes,&#8221; a commission statement said, adding that starting December 25 express tests for COVID-19 antibodies will be mandatory for everyone arriving to Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>As of December 22, the number of registered coronavirus cases in Uzbekistan was 76,180, including 612 deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/uzbekistan-suspends-entrance-for-travelers-from-eight-nations-over-new-covid-19-strain\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TASHKENT \u2014 Tashkent has barred travelers from eight nations from entering the country amid reports about a new coronavirus strain and an increase of COVID-19 cases in those\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,106,211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}