{"id":48823,"date":"2014-10-16T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6bd10fd11019a9199f04b864a585053c"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:40:47","slug":"press-release-press-briefing-morning-15-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48823","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Press briefing: morning 15 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"ebola\">Ebola<\/h2>\n<p>On reports that there had been a second healthcare worker infected by Ebola in Texas \u2013 the Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson (<abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr>) highlighted the effectiveness of the emergency exercises which took place over the weekend. He said the simulations had shown how the government was constantly keeping measures under review to ensure they were robust and tested in the right way.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> also pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/public-health-england\">Public Health England<\/a> and their ongoing contact with their <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr> counterparts \u2013 the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention &#8211; to look at any lessons that could be learnt from the <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr> experience.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/h2>\n<p>When asked about demonstrations in Hong Kong \u2013 the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the government had been clear that all sides should do all they could to ensure that the demonstrations remained peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if there were any plans to call in the Chinese Ambassador on this issue \u2013 the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said that the Prime Minister had spoken to his Chinese counterpart when he was in London earlier in the year and the government would continue to have close contact with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"smoking\">Smoking<\/h2>\n<p>When asked if there were plans to ban smoking in public parks \u2013 the <abbr title=\"Prime Minister\u2019s Official Spokesperson\">PMOS<\/abbr> said the government was clear it had no plans to do this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s Official Spokesperson answered questions on Ebola, Hong Kong and smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}