{"id":15468,"date":"2020-03-06T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/before-and-after-coronavirus-empties-worlds-busiest-spaces"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:21:03","slug":"before-and-after-coronavirus-empties-worlds-busiest-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15468","title":{"rendered":"Before and after: coronavirus empties world&#8217;s busiest spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial images reveal impact of outbreak on famous holy sites and capital cities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates\">Coronavirus latest updates: Trump admits outbreak \u2018might\u2019 impact US economy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Empty public squares, a highway with no cars on it and deserted holy sites \u2013 a series of striking satellite images have revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/05\/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance-5-march\">impact of the coronavirus epidemic<\/a> on some of the world\u2019s busiest spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The aerial photographs, released by Colorado-based space technology firm Maxar, show normally bustling spots from Mecca to Beijing thinned of people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/before-and-after-coronavirus-empties-worlds-busiest-spaces\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial images reveal impact of outbreak on famous holy sites and capital citiesCoronavirus latest updates: Trump admits outbreak \u2018might\u2019 impact US economyEmpty public squares, a highway with no cars on it and deserted holy sites \u2013 a series of striking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,1069,914,398,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-saudi-arabia","category-science","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\/15468","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15469,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions\/15469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}