{"id":22230,"date":"2020-08-30T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/30\/we-are-in-dire-straits-pacific-stands-on-covid-brink-amid-surging-infections"},"modified":"2020-08-30T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:00:17","slug":"we-are-in-dire-straits-pacific-stands-on-covid-brink-amid-surging-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22230","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are in dire straits&#8217;: Pacific stands on Covid brink amid surging infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising cases in Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and Guam raise fears of uncontrolled coronavirus outbreaks across Pacific<\/p>\n<p>Surging Covid-19 cases in Guam are threatening to overwhelm the island\u2019s healthcare system, while rapidly spreading infections across Papua New Guinea and new clusters in French Polynesia following the resumption of tourism have sparked fears of uncontrolled outbreaks in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific region is still the least-infected in the world \u2013 several countries remain Covid-19 free \u2013 but there are troubling surges across countries with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/29\/pacifics-fight-against-covid-19-hamstrung-by-lack-of-clean-water\">fragile health systems<\/a> ill-equipped for large numbers of infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/30\/we-are-in-dire-straits-pacific-stands-on-covid-brink-amid-surging-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising cases in Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and Guam raise fears of uncontrolled coronavirus outbreaks across PacificSurging Covid-19 cases in Guam are threatening to overwhelm the island\u2019s healthcare system, while rapidly spreading infections &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1537,"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":[41,1651,1272,874,1439,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-french-polynesia","category-guam","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230","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\/1537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/22231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}