{"id":17858,"date":"2020-05-04T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/japan-to-extend-state-of-emergency-covid-19-amid-fears-second-wave-could-cripple-tokyo-hospitals"},"modified":"2020-05-04T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:10:37","slug":"japan-to-extend-state-of-emergency-amid-fears-second-wave-could-cripple-tokyo-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17858","title":{"rendered":"Japan extends state of emergency amid fears over second wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzo Abe says lockdown measures will remain in place in all regions until 31 May<\/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>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has extended the country\u2019s state emergency until the end of the month, amid warnings that relaxing physical distancing advice too soon could flood already crowded hospitals with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\/all\">coronavirus<\/a> patients.<\/p>\n<p>Abe declared a month-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\">state of emergency<\/a> in Tokyo and six other prefectures on 7 April, enabling local governors to request that people avoid unnecessary trips outside and that non-essential businesses close.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/japan-to-extend-state-of-emergency-covid-19-amid-fears-second-wave-could-cripple-tokyo-hospitals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzo Abe says lockdown measures will remain in place in all regions until 31 MayCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has extended the country\u2019s state emergency until the end of the month, ami&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1069,914,88,299,638,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","category-shinzo-abe","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\/17858","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17889,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions\/17889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}