{"id":17256,"date":"2020-04-17T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/png-scrambles-to-contain-covid-19-as-prime-minister-tested-for-virus"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T05:36:18","slug":"png-scrambles-to-contain-covid-19-as-prime-minister-tested-for-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17256","title":{"rendered":"PNG scrambles to contain Covid-19 as prime minister tested for virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea introduces tough new measures as customs agent exposes senior officials to coronavirus<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister has been tested for Covid-19 after he was exposed to the virus by a customs agent.<\/p>\n<p>James Marape is among a number of officials leading the country\u2019s response to coronavirus who was tested. Their samples have been flown to the Australian city of Brisbane, with results expected by Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/17\/png-scrambles-to-contain-covid-19-as-prime-minister-tested-for-virus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea introduces tough new measures as customs agent exposes senior officials to coronavirusPapua New Guinea\u2019s prime minister has been tested for Covid-19 after he was exposed to the virus by a customs agent.James Marape is among a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"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":[41,1069,914,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/17256","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17256\/revisions\/17257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}