{"id":16254,"date":"2020-03-23T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/23\/coronavirus-rich-countries-poor-west-covid-19-developing-world"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T06:00:27","slug":"this-virus-is-ravaging-rich-countries-what-happens-when-it-hits-the-poor-ones-nesrine-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16254","title":{"rendered":"This virus is ravaging rich countries. What happens when it hits the poor ones? | Nesrine Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horror over the west\u2019s failure to contain Covid-19 will pale by comparison if it sweeps the developing world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">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>Though Africa has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/health-topics\/coronavirus-covid-19#sitrep\">fewer coronavirus cases<\/a> and a slower rate of infection than the UK, many countries in the continent have passed dramatically more extreme measures to prevent its spread than Britain has. In my birth country of Sudan, after only one case and one death was registered, all schools and universities were shut down. Several other nations, such as Egypt, have taken the ultimate precaution and closed their airports.<\/p>\n<p>There is no denial here, no mixed messaging, and no unfounded promise of how soon we will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/19\/boris-johnson-uk-can-turn-tide-of-coronavirus-in-12-weeks\">send the virus packing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/23\/coronavirus-rich-countries-poor-west-covid-19-developing-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror over the west\u2019s failure to contain Covid-19 will pale by comparison if it sweeps the developing worldCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThough Africa has fewer coronavirus cases and a slower rate of infection than the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1148,"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":[401,1069,588,62,914,532,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-globalisation","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/16254","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\/1148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16254\/revisions\/16255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}