{"id":20744,"date":"2020-07-20T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/first-coronavirus-linked-death-in-melanesia-as-papua-new-guinea-outbreak-spreads"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T02:46:18","slug":"first-coronavirus-linked-death-in-melanesia-as-papua-new-guinea-outbreak-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20744","title":{"rendered":"First coronavirus-linked death in Melanesia as Papua New Guinea outbreak spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman with cancer died with virus at the Port Moresby hospital linked to all recent cases<\/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>Papua New Guinea has recorded its first Covid-19-related death \u2013 the first Pacific island fatality outside US territories and the first in Melanesia \u2013 as it seeks to contain an outbreak in the main hospital in its capital, Port Moresby.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old woman \u2013 who had stage four breast cancer \u2013 died in Port Moresby general hospital on Sunday. She died with the novel coronavirus, doctors said, and her illness and death \u201cmay have been complicated by Covid-19\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/20\/first-coronavirus-linked-death-in-melanesia-as-papua-new-guinea-outbreak-spreads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman with cancer died with virus at the Port Moresby hospital linked to all recent casesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePapua New Guinea has recorded its first Covid-19-related death \u2013 the first Pacific island fatality outs&#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":[41,1069,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/20744","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=20744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}