{"id":20417,"date":"2020-07-11T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/british-pilot-returns-home-from-vietnam-after-covid-19-ordeal"},"modified":"2020-07-11T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T12:08:08","slug":"british-pilot-returns-home-from-vietnam-after-covid-19-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20417","title":{"rendered":"British pilot returns home from Vietnam after Covid-19 ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Cameron spent 10 weeks on a ventilator and was warned he might need a double lung transplant<\/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>A British pilot who spent more than two months on life support in Vietnam after contracting Covid-19 is on his way home, astounding doctors who gave him a 10% chance of survival.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Cameron, 42, was the sickest patient medics have treated during the coronavirus outbreak in the country, which has recorded no official deaths, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/06\/vietnam-crushed-the-coronavirus-outbreak-but-now-faces-severe-economic-test\">fast and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/06\/vietnam-crushed-the-coronavirus-outbreak-but-now-faces-severe-economic-test\">proactive response to the pandemic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/11\/british-pilot-returns-home-from-vietnam-after-covid-19-ordeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Cameron spent 10 weeks on a ventilator and was warned he might need a double lung transplantCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA British pilot who spent more than two months on life support in Vietnam after contracting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"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":[41,1069,561,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-scotland","category-vietnam","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\/20417","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\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions\/20418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}