{"id":19417,"date":"2020-06-17T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:00:35","slug":"coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19417","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific Islands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-sign-up-for-weekly-email-updates\">Sign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every Wednesday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total number of Covid-19 cases across the Pacific stands at 314, with new cases reported this week in New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is under increasing pressure, both internally and from across the region, to consider Pacific countries as part of its proposed travel \u2018bubble\u2019, alongside, or even in place of, Australia. The foreign minister, Winston Peters, initially rejected including Pacific island nations, but later backtracked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific IslandsSign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every WednesdayThe total number of Covid-19 cases across the Pacific stands at 314, with new cases reported this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1364,"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":[41,945,855,1069,436,1272,914,602,56,874,267,936,63,282,280,323,264,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bougainville","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-guam","category-infectious-diseases","category-marshall-islands","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-samoa","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","category-tonga","category-vanuatu","category-west-papua","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\/19417","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\/1364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}