{"id":11811,"date":"2019-12-05T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/samoa-measles-outbreak-families-fly-red-flags-to-request-vaccinations"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T04:14:58","slug":"samoa-measles-outbreak-families-fly-red-flags-to-request-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11811","title":{"rendered":"Samoa measles outbreak: families fly red flags to request vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers told to stay home during two-day drive to control virus that has killed 62 people<\/p>\n<p>Samoa\u2019s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people.<\/p>\n<p>The government told most public and private workers to stay home for two days and shut down roads to nonessential vehicles as teams began going door-to-door to administer vaccines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/samoa-measles-outbreak-families-fly-red-flags-to-request-vaccinations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers told to stay home during two-day drive to control virus that has killed 62 peopleSamoa\u2019s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people.The government told mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,874,936,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/11811","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}