{"id":2527728,"date":"2025-05-17T21:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2527728\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:22:20","slug":"france-suspends-all-flights-to-and-from-brazil-due-to-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2527728\/","title":{"rendered":"France suspends all flights to and from Brazil due to COVID variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"Nice Cote d'Azur International Airport amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: Medical workers prepare to test passengers as they arrive at Nice Cote d&#8217;Azur Airport amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Nice, France, March 1, 2021.   REUTERS\/Eric Gaillard<\/p>\n<p>PARIS (Reuters) &#8211; France will suspend all flights to and from Brazil in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected there, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take note that the situation is getting worse and we have decided to suspend all flights between France and Brazil until further notice,&#8221; Castex said.<\/p>\n<p>Several leading French doctors have been calling on the government for days to stop all air traffic with Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, Health Minister Olivier Veran said that around 6% of COVID-19 cases in France were from the more contagious variants first found in Brazil and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__extra_small__1Mw6v body__full_width__ekUdw body__extra_small_body__3QTYe sign-off__text__PU3Aj\">Reporting by Geert De Clercq; editing by Dominique Vidalon and Nick Macfie<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__element__2p5pI article-body__trust-badge__D_brm\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Medical workers prepare to test passengers as they arrive at Nice Cote d&#8217;Azur Airport amid t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2527729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785160],"tags":[765503,467949,30353,5278,4626,762734,61800,135664,763285,764391,762723,763055,762688,238274,764395,13393,762731,1656],"class_list":{"0":"post-2527728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brazil","8":"tag-airl","9":"tag-br","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-covid","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europ","14":"tag-fr","15":"tag-gen","16":"tag-hea","17":"tag-humdis","18":"tag-intag","19":"tag-latam","20":"tag-news1","21":"tag-pol","22":"tag-samer","23":"tag-tour","24":"tag-tran","25":"tag-1656"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114525277049257661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}