{"id":22154,"date":"2020-08-28T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/tribespeople-of-andaman-islands-in-bay-of-bengal-test-positive-for-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-08-28T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:03:16","slug":"ten-in-remote-indian-tribe-of-59-test-positive-for-covid-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22154","title":{"rendered":"Ten in remote Indian tribe of 59 test positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virus reached Great Andamanese tribe despite testing of all island visitors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/aug\/27\/coronavirus-live-blog-france-italy-hit-post-lockdown-case-highs-as-global-infections-top-24m\">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>Ten members of a dwindling tribe who live on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2006\/aug\/31\/india.randeepramesh\">secluded island in the Andaman Islands<\/a> archipelago have tested positive for coronavirus, as the pandemic continues to affect even the most remote regions of India.<\/p>\n<p>There are only 59 surviving members of the Great Andamanese tribe, all of them on Strait Island in the Andaman archipelago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/27\/tribespeople-of-andaman-islands-in-bay-of-bengal-test-positive-for-covid-19\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virus reached Great Andamanese tribe despite testing of all island visitorsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTen members of a dwindling tribe who live on a secluded island in the Andaman Islands archipelago have tested positiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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":[1069,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/22154","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions\/22157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}