{"id":963,"date":"2020-05-25T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T09:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=25560"},"modified":"2020-06-15T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T01:42:24","slug":"paradise-seychelles-is-covid-19-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/paradise-seychelles-is-covid-19-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Seychelles is Covid-19 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/africa\/paradise-seychelles-is-covid-19-free\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paradise Seychelles is Covid-19 Free-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Paradise-Seychelles-is-Covid-19-Free-TRAVELINDEX-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Paradise Seychelles is Covid-19 Free\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Victoria, Mah\u00e9, Seychelles, May 22, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ After 9 weeks of battling tirelessly the deadly Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, Seychelles- the small island holiday destination in the Indian Ocean with a population of less than a hundred thousand inhabitants- is now Covid-19 Free.<\/p>\n<p>The country, which reported a number of 11 cases in total, has announced the last infected patient tested negative for a continuous number of days and is now considered to be healed from the Covid-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the destination being free from Covid-19, the Minister for Tourism Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, Minister Didier Dogley stated \u201cAs the situation around the world remains precarious, it is a blessing for our small nation to have been able to curb the spread of the Covid-19 on our shores. As a destination, this is a very big advantage for Seychelles; there is a lot of preparatory work here on the ground with our partners to make sure that Seychelles sends a strong message of being a safe destination,\u201d said Minister Dogley.<\/p>\n<p>He further mentioned that with the opening of the airport on June 1, 2020, Seychelles will be in a very strong position to market itself as a safe destination; something that most tourists will be yearning for after being confined to their homes for months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitseychelles.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detailed travel guide on the paradise islands of the Seychelles, here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria, Mah\u00e9, Seychelles, May 22, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ After 9 weeks of battling tirelessly the deadly Covid-19 worldwide pandemic, Seychelles- the small island holiday destination in the Indian Ocean with a population of less than a hundred thousand inhabitants- is now Covid-19 Free. The country, which reported a number of 11 cases in total, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}