{"id":14710,"date":"2020-02-19T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/feb\/19\/british-couple-coronavirus-not-on-evacuation-flight-japan-video"},"modified":"2020-02-19T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:11:16","slug":"british-couple-with-coronavirus-will-not-be-on-evacuation-flight-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14710","title":{"rendered":"British couple with coronavirus &#8216;will not be on evacuation flight&#8217; &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British couple who had been asking the UK government to<br \/>\norganise a repatriation flight for passengers stuck on a cruise ship in Japan&nbsp;will not be on the plane after testing<br \/>\npositive for coronavirus. David Abel said in a video on Facebook that he and his wife, Sally, were being taken to a hostel as there were no available hospital beds nearby. The couple, who are in their 70s,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/feb\/18\/britain-to-evacuate-citizens-from-coronavirus-hit-cruise-ship-diamond-princess\">were diagnosed with the virus<\/a>&nbsp;one day before the ship\u2019s quarantine was due to end<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/foreign-office-tells-britons-not-to-leave-cruise-ship-struck-by-coronavirus\">Foreign Office tells Britons not to leave cruise ship struck by coronavirus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/feb\/19\/british-couple-coronavirus-not-on-evacuation-flight-japan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British couple who had been asking the UK government to<br \/>\norganise a repatriation flight for passengers stuck on a cruise ship in Japan&nbsp;will not be on the plane after testing<br \/>\npositive for coronavirus. David Abel said in a video on Facebook that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,1069,88,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}