{"id":16762,"date":"2022-02-27T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T07:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=16762"},"modified":"2022-02-27T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T07:39:42","slug":"uae-drops-face-masks-outdoors-quarantine-for-covid-contact-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/02\/27\/uae-drops-face-masks-outdoors-quarantine-for-covid-contact-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE drops face masks outdoors, quarantine for COVID contact cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"location-names\">DUBAI:<\/strong>The United Arab Emirates, the Middle East tourism and commercial hub, over the weekend ended a requirement to wear face masks outdoors and obligatory quarantine for COVID-19 contact cases.<\/p>\n<p>Fully-vaccinated passengers arriving in the country will no longer require PCR tests, said the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority in updated guidance that went into effect on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For economic and tourist sectors, physical distancing has been cancelled while mask-wearing in closed places is still mandatory,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The capital Abu Dhabi also dropped a border entry requirement for a negative PCR test for those coming from other UAE emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Daily coronavirus cases in the country have fallen to some 600 from close to 3,000 in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI:The United Arab Emirates, the Middle East tourism and commercial hub, over the weekend ended a requirement to wear face masks outdoors and obligatory quarantine for COVID-19 contact cases. Fully-vaccinated passengers arriving in the country will no longer require PCR tests, said the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority in updated guidance that went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16764,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16762\/revisions\/16764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}