{"id":21343,"date":"2020-08-04T20:23:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/fighting-ghost-coronavirus-victories-fragile"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:23:49","slug":"were-fighting-a-ghost-six-months-on-coronavirus-victories-remain-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21343","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re fighting a ghost\u2019: six months on, coronavirus victories remain fragile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governments are at a nebulous stage: past the initial shocks but still without a clear end in sight <\/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>Nobody is clapping any more. Six months since Covid-19 registered as an urgent threat, and one country after another spiralled into lockdown, the nightly outpourings of solidarity with essential workers have petered out.<\/p>\n<p>Governments behind which people rallied earlier in the outbreak are again facing criticism and scorn. Panic at the scenarios that filled imaginations in those first weeks \u2013 of millions of imminent deaths, medical systems buckling and food supplies running scarce \u2013 has largely abated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/fighting-ghost-coronavirus-victories-fragile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments are at a nebulous stage: past the initial shocks but still without a clear end in sight Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNobody is clapping any more. Six months since Covid-19 registered as an urgent threat, and o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1490,"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":[1069,1265,60,1226,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jordan","category-pakistan","category-portugal","category-us-news","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\/21343","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\/1490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21344,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}