{"id":13393,"date":"2020-01-30T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/thailand-steps-up-coronavirus-measures-amid-anger-at-handling"},"modified":"2020-01-30T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:04:33","slug":"thailand-steps-up-coronavirus-measures-amid-anger-at-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13393","title":{"rendered":"Thailand steps up coronavirus measures amid anger at handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of prioritising tourism with thousands visiting from Wuhan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/29\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-death-toll-cases-symptoms-treatment-evacuation-us-japanese-citizens-latest-news\">Coronavirus &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand is stepping up coronavirus surveillance measures among tourism workers and in shopping malls as it emerged the country was visited by tens of thousands of people in January from Wuhan, in China, where the outbreak originated, and other affected Chinese cities.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 14 cases of the new coronavirus have been recorded in Thailand, making it the second-hardest hit country behind China. Officials have not recorded any instances of human-to-human transmission, but said an outbreak in the country\u2019s tourism hotspots was possible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/29\/thailand-steps-up-coronavirus-measures-amid-anger-at-handling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of prioritising tourism with thousands visiting from WuhanCoronavirus &#8211; live updatesThailand is stepping up coronavirus surveillance measures among tourism workers and in shopping malls as it emerged the country was visited by tens o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,50,1069,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-thailand","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\/13393","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13394,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}