{"id":19165,"date":"2020-06-10T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/global-report-who-urges-pakistan-to-return-to-lockdown-as-hospitals-struggle"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T04:47:19","slug":"global-report-who-urges-pakistan-to-return-to-lockdown-as-hospitals-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19165","title":{"rendered":"Global report: WHO urges Pakistan to return to lockdown as hospitals struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil restores Covid-19 data online; Argentina passes 1,000 daily cases for first time; Fauci says \u2018we\u2019re still at the beginning\u2019 of pandemic <\/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>The World Health Organization has taken the unusual step of urging <strong>Pakistan<\/strong> to return to lockdown, suggesting the country implement restrictions in a cycle of two weeks on, two weeks off.<\/p>\n<p>While Pakistan has relatively low testing rates, one in four people who are tested return a positive result, the WHO said in a letter to Punjab\u2019s provincial health minister, Yasmin Rashid.&nbsp;Prime Minister Imran Khan has resisted a national lockdown, arguing the country cannot afford it, and provinces have instead introduced patchwork lockdowns. Last week Khan said these would be lifted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/10\/global-report-who-urges-pakistan-to-return-to-lockdown-as-hospitals-struggle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil restores Covid-19 data online; Argentina passes 1,000 daily cases for first time; Fauci says \u2018we\u2019re still at the beginning\u2019 of pandemic Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has taken the unusu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[246,920,1069,60,61,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-argentina","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-health-organization","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\/19165","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19166,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions\/19166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}