{"id":14619,"date":"2020-02-18T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/18\/britain-to-evacuate-citizens-from-coronavirus-hit-cruise-ship-diamond-princess"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:01:37","slug":"british-couple-on-diamond-princess-test-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14619","title":{"rendered":"British couple on Diamond Princess test positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David and Sally Abel announce positive test, as UK says it is trying to organise evacuation of British passengers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/18\/coronavirus-outbreak-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-hubei-deaths-china-wuhan-outbreak-apple-iphone-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British couple who published video diaries from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan say they have tested positive for the coronavirus, as the UK government announced plans to evacuate citizens from the ship.<\/p>\n<p>David Abel wrote in a Facebook post: \u201cThere is going to be a time of quiet. We have been proved positive and leaving for hospital soon. Blessings all xxx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/18\/britain-to-evacuate-citizens-from-coronavirus-hit-cruise-ship-diamond-princess\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David and Sally Abel announce positive test, as UK says it is trying to organise evacuation of British passengersCoronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updatesA British couple who published video diaries from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan say t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"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":[41,1069,59,914,88,299,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","category-uk-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\/14619","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\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14619\/revisions\/14640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}