{"id":8236,"date":"2020-07-22T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8236"},"modified":"2020-07-22T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:28:52","slug":"medical-screening-a-must-for-passengers-to-fly-without-mask-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8236","title":{"rendered":"Medical Screening a Must for Passengers to Fly Without Mask: Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"News_list_rdr art\">\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Travel Health News<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>TUESDAY, July 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Delta airline passengers who say they can&#8217;t wear a mask due to health conditions will have to undergo a medical screening before being allowed on a flight, the airline announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The examinations will be conducted over the phone and could take an hour or longer, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>People who are caught making &#8220;false claims of a disability&#8221; to avoid wearing a mask will be barred from flying on Delta for as long as masks are required, the airline warned.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on most major U.S. airlines are now required to wear masks, but enforcement has been uneven, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=240679\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Latest Travel Health News &#13; TUESDAY, July 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Delta airline passengers who say they can&#8217;t wear a mask due to health conditions will have to undergo a medical screening before being allowed on a flight, the airline announced Monday. The examinations will be conducted over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1594789020_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}