{"id":17433,"date":"2020-04-22T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/taiwan-navy-races-to-trace-700-sailors-on-pacific-goodwill-tour-after-covid-19-cases-emerge"},"modified":"2020-04-22T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:04:35","slug":"taiwan-navy-races-to-trace-700-sailors-on-pacific-goodwill-tour-after-covid-19-cases-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17433","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan navy races to trace 700 sailors on Pacific &#8216;goodwill&#8217; tour after Covid-19 cases emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have contacted 200,000 people who could have had contact with the crew of a ship that toured the Pacific on a goodwill mission<\/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>Taiwanese authorities are trying to track down thousands of people who might have come into contact with more than 700 sailors who were allowed to disembark after a \u201cgoodwill\u201d mission to the Pacific Islands, despite several reporting fevers and respiratory problems while on board.<\/p>\n<p>So far 27 sailors have been diagnosed with Covid-19, prompting accusations of \u201cserious lapses\u201d in a country which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/how-taiwan-is-containing-coronavirus-despite-diplomatic-isolation-by-china\">internationally lauded for its successful virus response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/22\/taiwan-navy-races-to-trace-700-sailors-on-pacific-goodwill-tour-after-covid-19-cases-emerge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have contacted 200,000 people who could have had contact with the crew of a ship that toured the Pacific on a goodwill missionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwanese authorities are trying to track down thousan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,1069,874,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17434,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}