{"id":51149,"date":"2020-02-14T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51149"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:48:10","slug":"us-says-new-travel-restrictions-on-the-table-as-singapore-hong-kong-report-sharp-rise-in-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51149","title":{"rendered":"US Says New Travel Restrictions &#8220;On The Table&#8221; As Singapore, Hong Kong Report Sharp Rise In New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/china-says-nearly-2000-doctors-nurses-infected-shortages-medical-supplies-persist\">US Says New Travel Restrictions &#8220;On The Table&#8221; As Singapore, Hong Kong Report Sharp Rise In New Cases<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>China says 1,716 medical workers have been infected<\/li><li>Singapore reports largest daily jump in cases amid increased human-to-human transmission<\/li><li>Hong Kong reports 3 new cases<\/li><li>Hubei&#8217;s new party boss orders quarantine tightened<\/li><li>President Xi touts new &#8220;biosecurity law&#8221;<\/li><li>Hong Kong Disney land offers space for quarantine<\/li><li>Chinese company says blood plasma of recovered patients useful in combating the virus<\/li><li>US mulling new travel restrictions<\/li><li>Japan reports 4 new cases; one patient recently returned from Hawaii.<\/li><li>CDC Director: Virus is &#8220;Coming&#8221; to the US.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (0915ET):\u00a0<\/strong>Japan has reported 4 new cases of the virus, including\u00a0<strong>one man who recently returned from the US state of Hawaii,<\/strong>and another who helped transfer an infected patient diagnosed aboard &#8220;the Diamond Princess&#8221;, the cruise ship that has been quarantined in Yokohama for 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, over in the US,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/its-coming-cdc-director-warns-coronavirus-become-widespread-throughout-united-states\">this interview<\/a>&nbsp;of the director of the CDC warning that the virus could become widespread in the US &#8216;beyond 2020&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update (0850ET):<\/strong>&nbsp;Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during an interview on Friday morning that more travel restrictions are &#8220;on the table,&#8221; suggesting that the US might apply similar restrictions to Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and other Asian countries that have reported rising numbers of cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, the State Department raised its travel alert for China to &#8216;4&#8217;, and the US imposed restrictions on foreigners who have recently traveled to China and re-routing Americans who have been to viral hotspots to certain US airports for screening on arrival. These travel restrictions have infuriated Beijing, and prompted a government spokesperson to accuse the US of spreading hysteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if the virus does &#8220;go away&#8221; in April, as President Trump has insisted&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Says New Travel Restrictions &#8220;On The Table&#8221; As Singapore, Hong Kong Report Sharp Rise In New Cases Summary: China says 1,716 medical workers have been infected Singapore reports largest daily jump in cases amid increased human-to-human transmission Hong Kong reports 3 new cases Hubei&#8217;s new party boss orders quarantine tightened President Xi touts new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,7],"tags":[121,29011,19255,664,4212,17622],"class_list":["post-51149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-center-for-disease-control","tag-covid-19","tag-global-pandemic","tag-quarantine","tag-singapore","tag-travel-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51150,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51149\/revisions\/51150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}