{"id":14557,"date":"2020-02-17T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-japan-braces-for-hundreds-more-cases-as-another-china-city-locked-down"},"modified":"2020-02-17T22:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:47:33","slug":"coronavirus-japan-braces-for-hundreds-more-cases-as-hubei-lockdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14557","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan confirms 99 new coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuations begin despite continued quarantine as Japan warns outbreak \u2018entering new phase\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-live-updates-us-citizens-japan-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-china-wuhan-hubei-cases-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus onboard the stricken Princess Diamond cruise ship docked in Japan, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 454.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile concern is growing over possible infections among passengers from another cruise liner that docked in Cambodia last week. On Sunday a traveller from the MS Westerdam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/16\/woman-let-off-cruise-ship-in-cambodia-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\">was confirmed to have the virus in Malaysia<\/a>, days after disembarking along with hundreds of other passengers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-japan-braces-for-hundreds-more-cases-as-another-china-city-locked-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuations begin despite continued quarantine as Japan warns outbreak \u2018entering new phase\u2019Coronavirus &#8211; live updatesAnother 99 people have tested positive for coronavirus onboard the stricken Princess Diamond cruise ship docked in Japan, bringing the &#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":[41,1069,88,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-us-news","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\/14557","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=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}