{"id":21234,"date":"2020-08-01T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/global-report-philippines-losing-battle-as-who-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases"},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T06:39:43","slug":"global-report-philippines-losing-battle-as-who-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21234","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Philippines &#8216;losing battle&#8217; as WHO records biggest jump in Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino medics plead for lockdown as health system teeters; US suffers deadliest month; South Korea arrest sect leader<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/two-u-turns-and-lot-of-chaos-its-been-a-painful-week-for-boris-johnson\">U-turns and chaos: a terrible week for Boris Johnson<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/aug\/01\/coronavirus-live-news-who-reports-record-global-daily-cases-as-easing-on-hold-in-england\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior doctors in the Philippines have pleaded with the government to impose a strict lockdown in the capital Manila or risk losing the battle to contain the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>As the World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jul\/31\/coronavirus-live-news-england-tightens-restrictions-who-says-young-people-behind-some-spikes?page=with:block-5f246ec28f08bb96099b6163#block-5f246ec28f08bb96099b6163\">recorded the highest daily number of new cases <\/a>so far during the pandemic, the medics said the Philippines\u2019 fragile health system needed a \u201ctime out\u201d to avert collapse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/global-report-philippines-losing-battle-as-who-records-biggest-jump-in-covid-19-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino medics plead for lockdown as health system teeters; US suffers deadliest month; South Korea arrest sect leaderU-turns and chaos: a terrible week for Boris JohnsonCoronavirus latest updatesSenior doctors in the Philippines have pleaded with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"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":[41,1069,914,55,222,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-philippines","category-south-korea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21244,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21234\/revisions\/21244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}