{"id":19077,"date":"2020-06-08T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/08\/workers-in-tokyos-red-light-district-to-be-tested-for-coronavirus-after-new-spike"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T05:31:36","slug":"workers-in-tokyos-red-light-district-to-be-tested-for-coronavirus-after-new-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19077","title":{"rendered":"Workers in Tokyo&#8217;s red-light district to be tested for coronavirus after new spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of new infections reported in Kabukicho, a district of more than 4,000 bars, restaurants and commercial sex establishments<\/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>Health authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2019\/jun\/10\/tokyo-big-year-is-the-impenetrable-city-finally-opening-up\">Tokyo<\/a> are to ask employees of host clubs and similar establishments to be regularly tested for Covid-19 after evidence that the virus is spreading among people who work in the capital\u2019s night-time economy.<\/p>\n<p>The city reported 14 new infections on Sunday, six of which involved people working in clubs where employees pour drinks and talk to customers in close proximity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/08\/workers-in-tokyos-red-light-district-to-be-tested-for-coronavirus-after-new-spike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of new infections reported in Kabukicho, a district of more than 4,000 bars, restaurants and commercial sex establishmentsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealth authorities in Tokyo are to ask employees of host clubs &#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077","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=19077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19078,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19077\/revisions\/19078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}