{"id":1092,"date":"2023-01-01T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-guardian-today-with-regards-to-covid-19-testing-for-china-arrivals-not-the-be-all-and-end-all\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:07:25","slug":"dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-guardian-today-with-regards-to-covid-19-testing-for-china-arrivals-not-the-be-all-and-end-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-co-chair-dr-matt-kneale-in-the-guardian-today-with-regards-to-covid-19-testing-for-china-arrivals-not-the-be-all-and-end-all\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK co-chair Dr Matt Kneale in The Guardian today with regards to COVID-19 testing for China arrivals: &#8220;Not the be-all and end-all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK co-chair Dr Matt Kneale speaks to The Guardian on Rishi Sunak&#8217;s decision to impose Covid-19 checks on travellers from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Kneale said that &#8220;anything that could minimise the impact of Covid on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/nhs\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">NHS<\/a> would be welcome, but added: \u201cI don\u2019t think we should be pinpointing China.\u201d Hospitals were already struggling with the \u201clarge burden from Covid, influenza and RSV [respiratory syncytial virus],\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can minimise Covid infections that would be useful, but it\u2019s not the be-all and end-all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/31\/sunaks-u-turn-on-china-covid-tests-is-a-political-move-say-scientists\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK co-chair Dr Matt Kneale speaks to The Guardian on Rishi Sunak&#8217;s decision to impose Covid-19 checks on travellers from China. Dr Kneale said that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}