{"id":13516,"date":"2020-02-01T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/tokyo-2020-organisers-fight-false-rumours-olympics-cancelled-over-coronavirus-crisis"},"modified":"2020-02-01T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T04:09:29","slug":"tokyo-2020-organisers-fight-false-rumours-olympics-cancelled-over-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13516","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020 organisers fight false rumours Olympics cancelled over coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers says they are not considering cancelling the Games after incorrect assertion spreads online <\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Olympic organisers have been forced to confront rumours the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> could lead to the cancellation of the Games, less than six months before they are due to open.<\/p>\n<p>The rising death toll in China from the virus, which has infected 17 people in Japan \u2013 including cases of human-to-human transmission \u2013 sparked claims online that the Olympics, which will be held from 24 July to 9 August, would be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/tokyo-2020-organisers-fight-false-rumours-olympics-cancelled-over-coronavirus-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers says they are not considering cancelling the Games after incorrect assertion spreads online Tokyo Olympic organisers have been forced to confront rumours the coronavirus outbreak could lead to the cancellation of the Games, less than six mon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1069,914,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13517,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13516\/revisions\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}