{"id":21408,"date":"2020-08-06T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/papua-new-guineas-massive-ok-tedi-mine-closes-as-covid-cases-spread-to-new-areas"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:17:21","slug":"papua-new-guineas-massive-ok-tedi-mine-closes-as-covid-cases-spread-to-new-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21408","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea&#8217;s massive Ok Tedi mine closes as Covid cases spread to new areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation shuts for 14 days as coronavirus infections rise more than ten-fold in three weeks<\/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>Cases of Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea have spread to new provinces, forcing the closure of the massive Ok Tedi mine, and sparking warnings that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/coronavirus-cases-in-papua-new-guinea-double-in-days\">surge in infections<\/a>, potentially in the thousands, could strike the country in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Seven workers at the Ok Tedi mine near the Indonesian border have tested positive to Covid-19. The mine has traced the infections back to a single worker who is believed to have contracted the virus from a person who had flown from Port Moresby to Kiunga on a commercial flight late last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/papua-new-guineas-massive-ok-tedi-mine-closes-as-covid-cases-spread-to-new-areas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation shuts for 14 days as coronavirus infections rise more than ten-fold in three weeksCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCases of Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea have spread to new provinces, forcing the closure of the massi&#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":[41,1069,914,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408","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=21408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions\/21409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}