{"id":17155,"date":"2020-04-14T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/14\/cyclone-harold-relief-for-vanuatu-delayed-by-coronavirus-contamination-fears"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:22:19","slug":"cyclone-harold-relief-for-vanuatu-delayed-by-coronavirus-contamination-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17155","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Harold: relief for Vanuatu delayed by coronavirus contamination fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian supplies flown in by Australian government can\u2019t be touched for three days due to strict quarantine rules <\/p>\n<p>The distribution of urgent cyclone relief supplies brought into Vanuatu by the Australian government has been delayed due to coronavirus, potentially endangering lives.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Cyclone Harold hit the northern islands of the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, flattening buildings and killing three people \u2013 raising the international total to 30.<\/p>\n<p>Following Vanuatu\u2019s request for international assistance, the Australian government sent an RAAF plane carrying humanitarian relief supplies, such as blankets, lanterns, shelter kits and hygiene kits to the country over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/14\/cyclone-harold-relief-for-vanuatu-delayed-by-coronavirus-contamination-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian supplies flown in by Australian government can\u2019t be touched for three days due to strict quarantine rules The distribution of urgent cyclone relief supplies brought into Vanuatu by the Australian government has been delayed due to coronavi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"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":[41,43,645,1069,393,157,874,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-humanitarian-response","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-pacific-islands","category-vanuatu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155","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\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17156,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions\/17156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}