{"id":117365,"date":"2021-04-05T14:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117365"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T06:23:56","slug":"covid-19-portugal-extends-restrictions-on-spanish-border-until-apr-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117365","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Portugal extends restrictions on Spanish border until Apr 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/33d7c33\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2Fb1%2F590ff346df342232fc2146adf31f93%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH3309T%3A12021-04-04T141426Z_1_LYNXMPEH3309T_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-PORTUGAL-SPAIN.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Portuguese police officers check a car at the border between Portugal and Spain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LISBON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal extended restrictions on travel via land and sea to Spain that had been due to end this weekend until Apr\u00a015 as it works to contain the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two countries imposed the restrictions on Jan\u00a028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interior ministry said the restrictions would remain in place for a further 11 days, adding that the measures did not prevent citizens or residents of Portugal from entering the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vehicles transporting goods, emergency vehicles and seasonal border workers are also exempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationals from Britain, Brazil and South Africa &#8211; where more contagious coronavirus variants were first detected &#8211; or any country with an infection rate above 500 cases per 100,000 people must quarantine for 14 days if they have entered via the land border, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal, which has so far reported 780,322 COVID-19 cases and 16,879 deaths, is slowly lifting some other restrictions after a three-month nationwide lockdown came into force early this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GREECE said it was extending restrictions on domestic flights until Apr\u00a012 and on international flights until April 19 as the number of new infections there continues to rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITALY reported 326 coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday against 376 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections decreased to 18,025 from 21,261.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy has registered 111,030 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the seventh-highest in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has reported 3.6 million cases to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients in hospital with COVID-19 &#8211; not including those in intensive care &#8211; stood at 28,432 on Sunday, down from 28,489 a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of intensive care patients fell to 3,703 from a previous 3,714. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese police officers check a car at the border between Portugal and Spain LISBON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal extended restrictions on travel via land and sea to Spain that had been due to end this weekend until Apr\u00a015 as it works to contain the spread of COVID-19. The two countries imposed the restrictions on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}