{"id":14889,"date":"2020-02-23T22:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/23\/coronavirus-outbreak-woman-tests-positive-after-disembarking-diamond-princess-live-news"},"modified":"2020-02-24T03:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:18:13","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-turkey-closes-border-with-iran-to-stop-infection-spreading-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14889","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus outbreak: four cruise ship passengers test positive in UK  \u2013 live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and Pakistan close borders with Iran after eight deaths, while in northern Italy towns are on lockdown after jump in cases<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-23T18:18:13.314Z\">6.18pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/world-is-approaching-coronavirus-tipping-point-experts-say\">Angela Giuffrida, Patrick Wintour and Sam Jones\u2019s roundup<\/a> of today\u2019s coronavirus developments across the globe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-23T16:20:14.340Z\">4.20pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Four of the 32 British and Irish Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers taken to Arrowe Park, Merseyside on Saturday have tested positive for coronavirus strain Covid-19, the chief medical officer for England has said.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Chris Whitty said: \u201cFour further patients in England have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 13.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/23\/coronavirus-outbreak-woman-tests-positive-after-disembarking-diamond-princess-live-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and Pakistan close borders with Iran after eight deaths, while in northern Italy towns are on lockdown after jump in cases 6.18pm GMT Here\u2019s Angela Giuffrida, Patrick Wintour and Sam Jones\u2019s roundup of today\u2019s coronavirus developments across the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"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":[41,1069,221,914,451,88,419,299,222,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-japan","category-russia","category-science","category-south-korea","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\/14889","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\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14889\/revisions\/14919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}