{"id":13489,"date":"2020-02-01T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/coronavirus-thailand-confirms-first-human-to-human-transmission"},"modified":"2020-02-01T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:27:06","slug":"coronavirus-first-human-transmission-in-thailand-as-russia-and-uk-confirm-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13489","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: first human transmission in Thailand as Russia and UK confirm cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected infection of taxi driver by traveller raises fears virus could reach tourist hotspots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jan\/31\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-death-toll-who-global-health-emergency-latest-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand has recorded its first human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus, after a taxi driver was apparently infected by a passenger, heightening concern over the virus\u2019s potential to spread in the worst-hit country outside China.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver was among five new patients confirmed on Friday, bringing the total number of cases in Thailand to 19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/31\/coronavirus-thailand-confirms-first-human-to-human-transmission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected infection of taxi driver by traveller raises fears virus could reach tourist hotspotsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesThailand has recorded its first human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus, after a taxi driver was apparently infected b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":905,"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":[41,50,1069,221,914,451,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","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\/13489","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\/905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13489\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}