{"id":15128,"date":"2020-02-27T21:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/saudia-arabia-bans-foreign-pilgrims-as-coronavirus-hits-region"},"modified":"2020-02-27T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:03:50","slug":"saudi-arabia-bans-foreign-pilgrims-as-japan-plans-to-close-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15128","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia bans foreign pilgrims as Japan plans to close schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries around world scramble to halt spread of virus that has so far killed almost 3,000 people<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/27\/coronavirus-news-live-updates\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has taken the unprecedented step of banning foreign pilgrims from entering the country five months before the annual hajj pilgrimages, while Japan will close its schools next week as countries around the world scramble to halt the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the virus has killed nearly 3,000 people and infected more than 82,000, prompting warnings that the world is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/world-is-approaching-coronavirus-tipping-point-experts-say\">fast approaching a \u201ctipping point\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/27\/saudia-arabia-bans-foreign-pilgrims-as-coronavirus-hits-region\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries around world scramble to halt spread of virus that has so far killed almost 3,000 peopleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSaudi Arabia has taken the unprecedented step of banning foreign pilgrims from entering the country five months before the ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1055,"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":[1162,452,50,1069,635,415,1164,1166,402,914,448,405,451,88,1113,212,1167,1165,1163,60,1168,398,222,746,1039,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahrain","category-brazil","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-denmark","category-donald-trump","category-estonia","category-georgia","category-greece","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-iraq","category-italy","category-japan","category-kuwait","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-north-macedonia","category-norway","category-oman","category-pakistan","category-romania","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-korea","category-spain","category-united-arab-emirates","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","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\/1055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions\/15129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}