{"id":14377,"date":"2020-02-14T03:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/japan-reports-first-coronavirus-death-as-44-more-cases-confirmed-aboard-cruise-ship"},"modified":"2020-02-14T03:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:55:36","slug":"japan-reports-first-coronavirus-death-as-44-more-cases-confirmed-on-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14377","title":{"rendered":"Japan reports first coronavirus death as 44 more cases confirmed on cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First fatality is woman in her 80s who had been in hospital near Tokyo since 1 February<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/13\/coronavirus-latest-updates-deaths-in-china-pass-1300-with-jump-in-cases-live-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 live updates <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan has announced its first death from the coronavirus outbreak, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo, as fears of the spreading disease mount in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The health minister, Katsunobu Kato, said the first fatality was a woman in her 80s who had been in hospital since 1 February, when she was diagnosed with pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/japan-reports-first-coronavirus-death-as-44-more-cases-confirmed-aboard-cruise-ship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First fatality is woman in her 80s who had been in hospital near Tokyo since 1 FebruaryCoronavirus \u2013 live updates Japan has announced its first death from the coronavirus outbreak, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near &#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":[41,361,1069,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","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\/14377","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=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14378,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions\/14378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}