{"id":15901,"date":"2020-03-16T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/16\/cruise-ships-scramble-to-find-safe-harbour-amid-covid-19-crisis-as-countries-turn-them-away"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:38:47","slug":"coronavirus-cruise-ship-passengers-stranded-at-sea-as-countries-turn-them-away-from-harbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15901","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: cruise ship passengers stranded at sea as countries turn them away from harbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liners with thousands of passengers onboard remain stranded on the high seas<\/p>\n<p>As countries across the world scramble to close their borders in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, several cruise ships, some laden with thousands of passengers, are stranded on the high seas seeking a port at which they can dock.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian Jewel, sailing under the flag of the Bahamas, has been refused permission to dock in French Polynesia, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia, and is now piloting to American Samoa to refuel.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/16\/cruise-ships-scramble-to-find-safe-harbour-amid-covid-19-crisis-as-countries-turn-them-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liners with thousands of passengers onboard remain stranded on the high seasAs countries across the world scramble to close their borders in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, several cruise ships, some laden with thousands of passengers, are st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,1242,1241,1069,1107,436,914,56,874,936,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-bahamas","category-caribbean","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-cruises","category-fiji","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}