{"id":249355,"date":"2020-03-20T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249355"},"modified":"2020-03-20T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:44:00","slug":"all-domestic-flights-bus-operations-in-saudi-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/20\/all-domestic-flights-bus-operations-in-saudi-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"All domestic flights, bus operations in Saudi suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207502\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aeroplane-aircraft-airline-1309644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207502\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aeroplane-aircraft-airline-1309644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aeroplane-aircraft-airline-1309644.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aeroplane-aircraft-airline-1309644-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aeroplane-aircraft-airline-1309644-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exemptions also include flights related to humanitarian and necessary cases, medical evacuation aircraft, and private aviation, as well as transports for health services and basic commodities. (Pexels Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 All domestic flights and several modes of public transportation in Saudi Arabia have been temporarily suspended to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Philippine Consul General in Jeddah Edgar Badajos reminded Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ipinag-utos kaninang umaga ng<\/em>\u00a0Saudi Ministry of Interior\u00a0<em>ang pag-suspinde sa lahat ng mga<\/em>\u00a0domestic flights, bus, taxi\u00a0<em>at<\/em>\u00a0train services ng\u00a0<em>labing-apat na araw mula alas<\/em>-6\u00a0<em>kaninang umaga<\/em>\u00a0(The Saudi Ministry of Interior has suspended all flights, bus, taxi, and train services for 14 days starting 6 a.m. local time),&#8221; Badajos said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>State media Saudi Press Agency said the suspension of bus and taxi operations is effective immediately except for service provided in airports for air transport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Public Transport Authority will coordinate with the Ministry of Interior, the Communications and Information Technology Commission, and other relevant authorities to urgently block the violating applications of passenger transport,&#8221; the state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exemptions also include flights related to humanitarian and necessary cases, medical evacuation aircraft, and private aviation, as well as transports for health services and basic commodities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 All domestic flights and several modes of public transportation in Saudi Arabia have been temporarily suspended to contain the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":207502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249356,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249355\/revisions\/249356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}