{"id":18811,"date":"2020-05-29T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/monkeys-steal-covid-19-test-samples-health-worker-india"},"modified":"2020-05-29T23:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:06:28","slug":"monkeys-steal-covid-19-test-samples-from-health-worker-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18811","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys steal Covid-19 test samples from health worker in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blood samples later recovered undamaged after fears incident could have helped spread virus <\/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>Monkeys mobbed an Indian health worker and made off with blood samples from coronavirus tests, prompting fears they could have spread the virus in the local area.<\/p>\n<p>After making off with the three samples this week in Meerut, near Delhi, the monkeys scampered up nearby trees and one then tried to chew its plunder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/monkeys-steal-covid-19-test-samples-health-worker-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood samples later recovered undamaged after fears incident could have helped spread virus Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMonkeys mobbed an Indian health worker and made off with blood samples from coronavirus tests, promp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[265,1069,62,914,512,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","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\/18811","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18811\/revisions\/18812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}