{"id":945,"date":"2014-11-01T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=945"},"modified":"2014-11-01T08:17:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:17:22","slug":"canada-bars-visas-from-ebola-hit-countries-americas-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Canada bars visas from Ebola-hit countries &#8211; Americas &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/americas\/2014\/11\/canada-bars-visas-from-ebola-hit-countries-201411162157248321.html\">Canada bars visas from Ebola-hit countries &#8211; Americas &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has suspended visa\u00a0applications for residents and nationals of countries with &#8220;widespread transmission&#8221; of the Ebola virus, becoming the second nation after Australia to introduce such a measure.<\/p>\n<p>The countries most severely hit by the worst Ebola outbreak ever are Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Canada\u00a0has not yet had a case of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a style=\"color: #fb9d04; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2014\/10\/australia-no-immigration-from-ebola-nations-2014102783935140258.html\" target=\"_blank\">similar move by Australia\u00a0<\/a>was slammed on Wednesday by Dr Margaret Chan,\u00a0the World Health Organisation&#8217;s director general, who said closing borders\u00a0won&#8217;t stop spread of the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians, including healthcare workers, in West Africa will be permitted to travel back to Canada, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada&#8217;s immigration ministry, said the government has &#8220;instituted a pause&#8221; in issuing visas for foreigners from risky countries, but noted &#8220;there was room for discretion if we can be assured that someone is not infected with the virus,&#8221; according to the Associated Press news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada bars visas from Ebola-hit countries &#8211; Americas &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Canada has suspended visa\u00a0applications for residents and nationals of countries with &#8220;widespread transmission&#8221; of the Ebola virus, becoming the second nation after Australia to introduce such a measure. The countries most severely hit by the worst Ebola outbreak ever are Liberia, Sierra Leone [&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],"tags":[18,103,223,232,855],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-africa","tag-canada","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}