{"id":17794,"date":"2020-05-02T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/afghanistan-in-new-battle-against-ravages-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-05-02T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T14:05:24","slug":"civil-war-poverty-and-now-the-virus-afghanistan-stands-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17794","title":{"rendered":"Civil war, poverty and now the virus: Afghanistan stands  on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate medics reveal the challenge of fighting Covid-19 in a country already beset by huge problems as watchdog warns of impending health disaster<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main hospital in Zabul, southern Afghanistan, was abandoned after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/killed-car-bomb-attack-afghan-province-zabul-190919042138106.html\">Taliban attack last September<\/a> destroyed most of the building and killed nearly 40 people.<\/p>\n<p>But when coronavirus slipped into the province this spring, desperate health authorities, casting around for ways to fight this new enemy, settled on its shattered remains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/afghanistan-in-new-battle-against-ravages-of-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate medics reveal the challenge of fighting Covid-19 in a country already beset by huge problems as watchdog warns of impending health disasterCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe main hospital in Zabul, southern Afghan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1270,"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":[46,1069,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794","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\/1270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17795,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions\/17795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}