{"id":11189,"date":"2019-11-17T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/samoa-declares-state-of-emergency-over-deadly-measles-epidemic"},"modified":"2019-11-17T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:50:15","slug":"samoa-declares-state-of-emergency-over-deadly-measles-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11189","title":{"rendered":"Samoa declares state of emergency over deadly measles epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six deaths have been linked to the outbreak, in a nation where vaccination rates are alarmingly low<\/p>\n<p>Samoa has closed all schools and cracked down on public gatherings as it enters a state of emergency over the deadly measles outbreak spreading across the Pacific islands.<\/p>\n<p>The island state of just 200,000, halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, announced the state of emergency on Saturday after declaring a measles epidemic late in October, when the first deaths were reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/17\/samoa-declares-state-of-emergency-over-deadly-measles-epidemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six deaths have been linked to the outbreak, in a nation where vaccination rates are alarmingly lowSamoa has closed all schools and cracked down on public gatherings as it enters a state of emergency over the deadly measles outbreak spreading &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,346,668,874,936,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-mmr","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}