{"id":20383,"date":"2020-07-11T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/job-killer-of-the-century-economies-of-pacific-islands-face-collapse-over-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-07-11T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:00:27","slug":"job-killer-of-the-century-economies-of-pacific-islands-face-collapse-over-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20383","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Job-killer of the century&#8217;: economies of Pacific islands face collapse over Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The region is largely coronavirus-free, but pandemic shutdowns and loss of tourism dollars are devastating its economies <\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic is the \u201cjob-killer of the century\u201d, Fiji\u2019s prime minister has said, as economies across the Pacific face collapse from economic and travel shutdowns, exacerbating existing illnesses, and potentially driving people into hunger.<\/p>\n<p>While the number of cases across the Pacific remains low \u2013 several countries across the Pacific remain Covid-free and continue to enforce strict border closures \u2013 the economic impacts have devastated tourism- and import-dependent economies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/job-killer-of-the-century-economies-of-pacific-islands-face-collapse-over-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The region is largely coronavirus-free, but pandemic shutdowns and loss of tourism dollars are devastating its economies The Covid-19 pandemic is the \u201cjob-killer of the century\u201d, Fiji\u2019s prime minister has said, as economies across the Pacific face coll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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":[41,1069,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/20383","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}