{"id":15966,"date":"2020-03-17T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/south-east-asian-countries-impose-coronavirus-restrictions"},"modified":"2020-03-17T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:22:30","slug":"chaos-in-manila-as-philippines-launches-coronavirus-quarantine-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15966","title":{"rendered":"Chaos in Manila as Philippines launches coronavirus quarantine measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South-east Asian countries impose restrictions as doubt cast on warm weather theory <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/17\/coronavirus-live-news-updates-uk-us-australia-europe-france-italy-who-self-isolation-travel-bans-borders-latest-update\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Millions of people in the Philippines were left confined after the introduction of surprise quarantine measures that have caused chaos in the capital, Manila, as countries across south-east Asia imposed sweeping restrictions in response to a recent wave of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from Manila showed long queues of workers stranded at checkpoints, and commuters scrambling to climb on to the back of crowded lorries after a ban on public transport that was introduced at midnight with just a few hours of warning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/south-east-asian-countries-impose-coronavirus-restrictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South-east Asian countries impose restrictions as doubt cast on warm weather theory Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people in the Philippines were left confined after the introduction of surprise quarantine measu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1132,"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":[41,1069,156,727,70,82,55,61,93,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-indonesia","category-laos","category-malaysia","category-myanmar","category-philippines","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-world-health-organization","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\/15966","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\/1132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15966\/revisions\/15967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}