{"id":16258,"date":"2020-03-23T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/papua-new-guinea-declares-state-of-emergency-after-first-coronavirus-case"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:12:33","slug":"papua-new-guinea-declares-state-of-emergency-after-first-coronavirus-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16258","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea declares state of emergency after first coronavirus case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign mine worker is confirmed as the country\u2019s first case, as Guam records the Pacific region\u2019s first Covid-19 death<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea will enter into a two-week state of emergency on Tuesday after the country confirmed its first case of Covid-19, as the Pacific region recorded its first death from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The Papua New Guinea government confirmed late on Friday evening that its first case of coronavirus is a foreign mine worker who entered the country on 13 March and travelled to Lae.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/23\/papua-new-guinea-declares-state-of-emergency-after-first-coronavirus-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foreign mine worker is confirmed as the country\u2019s first case, as Guam records the Pacific region\u2019s first Covid-19 deathPapua New Guinea will enter into a two-week state of emergency on Tuesday after the country confirmed its first case of Covid-19, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,1069,436,1272,346,914,874,267,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-guam","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-samoa"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions\/16259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}