{"id":20297,"date":"2020-07-08T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/global-report-french-bus-driver-brutally-assaulted-for-refusing-to-take-unmasked-men"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:02:28","slug":"global-report-catalonia-makes-mask-wearing-in-public-compulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20297","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Catalonia makes mask-wearing in public compulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish region\u2019s move comes amid new outbreak; two charged with murder over bus driver assault in France; WHO says coronavirus cases are increasing by 200,000 a day<\/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><strong>Spain<\/strong>\u2019s northern Catalonia region will make wearing a mask in public spaces compulsory at all times from Thursday morning, as French prosecutors charged two men with with attempted murder after a bus driver was attacked and left brain dead for refusing to drive a group of mask-less men.<\/p>\n<p>The move in Catalonia was announced as the region struggles with a renewed outbreak of coronavirus around Lleida that has forced a new lockdown for 200,000 inhabitants and pushed hospitals to the brink.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/global-report-french-bus-driver-brutally-assaulted-for-refusing-to-take-unmasked-men\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish region\u2019s move comes amid new outbreak; two charged with murder over bus driver assault in France; WHO says coronavirus cases are increasing by 200,000 a dayCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain\u2019s northern Catalonia r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[43,1069,526,448,1005,451,532,746,47,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-iran","category-israel","category-italy","category-south-africa","category-spain","category-us-news","category-uzbekistan","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\/20297","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions\/20298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}