{"id":16159,"date":"2020-03-20T23:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/20\/coronavirus-the-week-the-world-shut-down"},"modified":"2020-03-20T23:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:07:45","slug":"coronavirus-the-week-the-world-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16159","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: the week the world shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walls have been raised and societies quarantined as people enter a new reality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/20\/coronavirus-live-updates-outbreak-deaths-italy-uk-us-australia-europe-vaccine-china-global-economy-toll-latest-update-news\">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>It should not have come as a surprise. Life had already been upended in China. Iran and Italy have been reeling for a month. And yet it still felt sudden, this week, when walls were raised across the world, entire societies were quarantined and billions of people realised they had crossed a dividing line: from life before coronavirus to after.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of governments prevaricating over whether to ban mass gatherings, close businesses or seal borders, restrictions came in a flurry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/france-at-war-how-parisians-are-coping-with-life-under-lockdown\">\u201cWe are at war,\u201d<\/a> announced the French president, Emmanuel Macron. But without adequate weapons to fight the virus, let alone enough hospital beds or ventilators, this was the week the world beat a tactical retreat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/20\/coronavirus-the-week-the-world-shut-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walls have been raised and societies quarantined as people enter a new realityCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt should not have come as a surprise. Life had already been upended in China. Iran and Italy have been reeling fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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":[43,327,1069,221,526,533,62,914,451,1265,212,61,746,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-bangladesh","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-jordan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","category-uk-news","category-us-news","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\/16159","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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16159\/revisions\/16160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}