{"id":1064952,"date":"2021-11-29T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064952"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:58:50","slug":"miss-universe-hopeful-tests-positive-for-covid-after-arrival-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miss-universe-hopeful-tests-positive-for-covid-after-arrival-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe Hopeful Tests Positive for COVID After Arrival in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiss-universe-hopeful-tests-positive-for-covid-after-arrival-in-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Miss Universe contestant has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arriving in Israel, after the country decided to go ahead and host the beauty pageant despite barring entries to foreigners in a bid to fight the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Universe organizers did not identify the contestant or whether she had contracted the omicron variant, but said that she was fully vaccinated and had tested negative before departing for Israel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>She was taken to a quarantine hotel provided by the government while people who came into contact with her have been asked to self-isolate.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the contestants have already arrived in Israel, organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Miss Universe competition is under a number of strict COVID-19 protocols and restrictions, developed in accordance with Israeli officials and through best-in-class industry standards,\u201d it added. \u201cWe continue to cooperate with the Israeli authorities and will share more information as it is appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18931394\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236859306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18931394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236859306-1024x686-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"663\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Miss Universe contestants arrive to Israel\u2019s Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, east of Tel Aviv, on November 28, 2021.&nbsp; (AHMAD GHARABLI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2021\/11\/29\/miss-south-africa-lalela-mswane-defies-haters-lands-in-israel-for-miss-universe\/\">reported<\/a> earlier on Monday,&nbsp;Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane, who was under intense pressure from anti-Israel groups and even her own government to boycott the pageant, arrived on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReady as I\u2019ll ever be! I\u2019m so grateful for this opportunity to represent my country on the @missuniverse stage!\u201d Mswane&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWyXP-_t52r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;on her Instagram account upon landing in Israel on Sunday, holding her country\u2019s flag.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government has called on its national beauty pageant winner to boycott this year\u2019s Miss Universe contest due to its location in Israel, citing \u201catrocities against Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government said it \u201cwithdraws its support\u201d of Miss SA, Lalela Mswane, after local pageant organizers refused to pull her out of the contest in Israel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Africa4Palestine, a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)-aligned group that touts itself as a human rights group, incorrectly announced this week that Mswane had withdrawn from the pageant, the South African Jewish Report&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sajr.co.za\/miss-sa-headed-to-miss-universe-despite-bullying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18931498\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236617829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18931498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236617829-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Miss Universe Andrea Meza visits the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem on November 17, 2021 ahead of the 70th Miss Universe pageant to be held in Israel\u2019s Red Sea resort of Eilat. (AHMAD GHARABLI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mswane\u2019s agent, Stephanie Weil, said the&nbsp;24-year-old would be attending the contest \u201ccontrary to any indication otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Africa4Palestine responded by threatening to&nbsp;\u201cembark on a vigilant campaign including protest action\u201d against the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-travel-lifestyle-boycotts-middle-east-d55495b4c920b2e9b708e4425fcc2699\">interview<\/a> with the Associated Press, the reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza, said the pageant shouldn\u2019t be politicized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone with different beliefs, with different backgrounds, with different cultures, they all come together and when you are in there you forget about politics, about your religion,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just about embracing other women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Miss Universe contestant has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arriving in Israel, after the country decided to go ahead and host the beauty pageant despite barring entries to foreigners &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}