{"id":1124550,"date":"2021-12-16T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124550"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:28:38","slug":"ghana-will-fine-airlines-for-allowing-unvaccinated-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ghana-will-fine-airlines-for-allowing-unvaccinated-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Will Fine Airlines for Allowing Unvaccinated Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fghana-will-fine-airlines-for-allowing-unvaccinated-travelers%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=1124550&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/airport-travelers-dark-background-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ghana\u2019s government&nbsp;announced Monday it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/12\/14\/ghana-to-fine-airlines-3-500-per-unvaccinated-passenger\/\/\">fine<\/a> airlines $3,500 per passenger if the traveler in question arrives in Ghana without proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus, Africa News reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Ghanaians who fly in without meeting the requirement will be allowed to enter the country and undergo a 14-day quarantine, non-Ghanaian nationals who are not fully vaccinated may be banned from entering the country and returned to the airport they departed from at the cost of the airline,\u201d according to the news site.<\/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>The Ghana Health Service announced on December 9 it would <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_GHSofficial\/status\/1469041956714078219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1469041956714078219%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.africanews.com%2F2021%2F12%2F14%2Fghana-to-fine-airlines-3-500-per-unvaccinated-passenger%2F\">require<\/a> all foreign travelers aged 18 years and older entering Ghana on international flights to present \u201cevidence of full vaccination for a COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccine\u201d starting December 12.<\/p>\n<p>The government body said it would only recognize travelers as \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d if they received coronavirus vaccines from a list of brands approved by the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). Ghana FDA has so far approved Chinese coronavirus vaccines made by AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Pfizer, and Moderna for use in the West African nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Health Service, which is an agency of Ghana\u2019s Ministry of Health, said in a press release on December 9 it decided to impose a vaccine mandate on foreign travelers based on a recent \u201csurge\u201d in new Chinese coronavirus cases recorded at Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra, Ghana. The health body said it had detected 241 new coronavirus infections at KIA in November, with an average caseload of 20 per day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe new variant Omicron, which is said to be more transmissible has been detected at our airport [sic],\u201d the statement revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Health Service referred to the latest strain of \u201cCovid-19,\u201d or the Chinese coronavirus,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/scientists-warn-of-new-covid-variant-with-high-number-of-mutations\">discovered<\/a> in Botswana on November 11. \u201cCovid-19\u201d is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, a type of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana FDA\u2019s inclusion of Jonhson &amp; Johnson\u2019s vaccine on its list of approved immunizations against the Chinese coronavirus in its December 9 press release has raised concerns given the agency claimed in the same document to have imposed a vaccine mandate on foreign travelers in part to prevent transmission of Omicron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s vaccine produced virtually no antibody protection against the omicron coronavirus variant in a laboratory experiment,\u201d Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/j-j-shot-shows-no-neutralization-against-omicron-in-lab-study\">reported<\/a> on December 14 after reviewing a new study led by South African virologist Penny Moore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] key measure of antibody levels fell from 303 against the original strain to undetectable levels against Omicron in those with the J&amp;J [Johnson &amp; Johnson] shot,\u201d according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOmicron does indeed exhibit substantial immune escape from antibodies,\u201d Moore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10313227\/Johnson-Johnson-vaccine-dubious-against-Omicron-lab-study-finds.html\">said<\/a> in a presentation of her study on December 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation, I think, is even more alarming for the J&amp;J vaccine \u2014 there was no detectable neutralization in our assay,\u201d the virologist revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s government\u00a0announced Monday it will fine airlines $3,500 per passenger if the traveler in question arrives in Ghana without proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus, Africa News reported Tuesday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-1124550","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\/1124550","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124550\/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=1124550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}