{"id":15541,"date":"2020-03-08T06:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/07\/thousands-held-on-cruise-ship-off-united-states-scientists-declare-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-03-08T06:05:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T21:05:16","slug":"thousands-held-on-cruise-ship-off-us-west-coast-as-scientists-say-this-is-now-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15541","title":{"rendered":"Thousands held on cruise ship off US west coast as scientists say: \u2018This is now a pandemic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning after 21 test positive on liner, while in Spain police lock down blocks of flats and in China a quarantine hotel collapses<\/p>\n<p>Concern was mounting yesterday for thousands of passengers \u2013 many elderly \u2013 on a cruise ship being held off San Francisco, after 21 people on board tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>US vice-president Mike Pence urged older Americans to \u201cuse caution\u201d in planning cruise holidays in the near future, as he announced plans to bring the Grand Princess into a \u201cnon-commercial port\u201d where all passengers and crew would be tested. Individuals would be quarantined and treated as needed. There are more than 3,500 people, including 140 Britons, on the ship. Two of those who tested positive were passengers, while the other 19 were crew members.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/07\/thousands-held-on-cruise-ship-off-united-states-scientists-declare-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning after 21 test positive on liner, while in Spain police lock down blocks of flats and in China a quarantine hotel collapsesConcern was mounting yesterday for thousands of passengers \u2013 many elderly \u2013 on a cruise ship being held off San Francisco,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"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":[50,1069,746,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-spain","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","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\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions\/15542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}