{"id":19650,"date":"2020-06-24T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/24\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing"},"modified":"2020-06-24T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:00:01","slug":"coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19650","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific Islands <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <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><\/p>\n<p>The total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for the region stands at 352, an increase of 38 since last week \u2013 a reminder that although infection rates may be slowing in the region, the crisis is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>US inability \u2013 or unwillingness \u2013 to cope with coronavirus is affecting the Pacific. A spate of new cases have been reported on Guam\u2019s largest air force base.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/24\/coronavirus-in-the-pacific-weekly-briefing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19-related developments throughout the Pacific Islands \u2022 Sign up to get this Coronavirus in the Pacific briefing delivered to your email every WednesdayThe total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for th&#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":[41,43,855,1069,436,1272,914,591,952,1102,56,874,267,936,63,280,563,47,323,264,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-guam","category-infectious-diseases","category-kiribati","category-micronesia","category-new-caledonia","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-samoa","category-solomon-islands","category-tonga","category-tuvalu","category-us-news","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\/19650","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=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}