{"id":15012,"date":"2020-02-26T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-in-a-war-zone-afghanistan-braces-for-outbreak-after-first-case"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:00:11","slug":"coronavirus-in-a-war-zone-afghanistan-braces-for-outbreak-after-first-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15012","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in a war zone: Afghanistan braces for outbreak after first case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lone Kabul laboratory preparing to treat patients in the midst of political turmoil and tentative peace talks, as border with Iran closed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/25\/coronavirus-live-updates-outbreak-latest-news-italy-italia-deaths-symptoms-china-stocks-wall-street-dow-jones-economy-falls\">Coronavirus &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preparations for an outbreak of coronavirus were underway in Afghanistan as the country confirmed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-health-afghanistan\/afghanistan-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-in-province-bordering-iran-idUSKCN20I0M0\">first case <\/a>in the western province of Herat, which borders Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Seven more suspected cases have been identified in Herat, and three cases in the nearby provinces of Farah and Ghor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-in-a-war-zone-afghanistan-braces-for-outbreak-after-first-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lone Kabul laboratory preparing to treat patients in the midst of political turmoil and tentative peace talks, as border with Iran closedCoronavirus &#8211; latest updatesPreparations for an outbreak of coronavirus were underway in Afghanistan as the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"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":[46,918,87,1069,59,566,914,448,512,916,212,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biology","category-conflict-and-arms","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/15012","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\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012\/revisions\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}