{"id":20964,"date":"2020-07-25T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/25\/we-dont-have-enough-beds-png-hospitals-braces-for-covid-19-surge"},"modified":"2020-07-25T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:00:37","slug":"we-dont-have-enough-beds-png-hospitals-brace-for-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20964","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We don&#8217;t have enough beds&#8217;: PNG hospitals brace for Covid-19 surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spike in cases in the capital Port Moresby threatens to overwhelm the country\u2019s health system<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/24\/coronavirus-live-news-us-cases-top-4m-as-who-chief-chides-pompeo-for-untrue-claims\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s Covid-19 outbreak could overwhelm its health system within days, the country\u2019s pandemic chief has warned, as masks have been made compulsory in the capital, and the government has called in the World Health Organization and the military for help.<\/p>\n<p>PNG\u2019s pandemic response controller, David Manning, said a dedicated isolation unit established in the capital Port Moresby to treat Covid-19 could soon be overwhelmed if current infections trends continue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/25\/we-dont-have-enough-beds-png-hospitals-braces-for-covid-19-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spike in cases in the capital Port Moresby threatens to overwhelm the country\u2019s health systemCoronavirus latest updatesPapua New Guinea\u2019s Covid-19 outbreak could overwhelm its health system within days, the country\u2019s pandemic chief has warned, as mas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1473,"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":[41,1069,914,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/20964","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\/1473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions\/20965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}