{"id":1388,"date":"2020-11-12T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:09:43","slug":"coronavirus-london-airport-ceo-covid-19-tests-needed-for-years-even-with-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: London airport CEO, COVID-19 tests needed for years even with vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Airline passengers will need to take Covid-19 tests before flying long after a vaccine for the viral infection has been introduced, the head of what\u2019s usually Europe\u2019s busiest airport warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The time required for a global vaccine roll-out means testing must go hand-in-hand with inoculation if international travel is to return to meaningful levels, London Heathrow airport Chief Executive Officer John Holland-Kaye said in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cEven with the U.K. getting early access to a vaccine it\u2019ll take a year and a half to vaccinate the entire country, Holland-Kaye told Bloomberg TV. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take much longer before even the fastest vaccine can really have a massive impact around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" style=\"text-align: left;\">International flights have barely revived from groundings earlier this year as countries impose travel curbs to stem fresh outbreaks of the coronavirus. While Pfizer Inc.\u2019s announcement of a vaccine that appears to prevent 90% of infections has buoyed airline stocks, it\u2019s not clear how air-transport regulators will respond and how quickly the breakthrough will benefit the industry.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline passengers will need to take Covid-19 tests before flying long after a vaccine for the viral infection has been introduced, the head of what\u2019s usually Europe\u2019s busiest airport warned. The time required for a global vaccine roll-out means testing must go hand-in-hand with inoculation if international travel is to return to meaningful levels, London &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroarab-int.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}