{"id":22454,"date":"2020-09-05T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/cook-islands-former-pm-dies-of-coronavirus-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-09-05T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T01:21:10","slug":"cook-islands-former-pm-dies-of-coronavirus-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22454","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands former PM dies of coronavirus in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Williams, who practised as a GP in Auckland, is praised as a \u2018pioneer\u2019 who will be greatly missed in both countries<\/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>A former prime minister of the Cook Islands, Joseph Williams, has died of coronavirus in Auckland, New Zealand\u2019s health ministry said on Saturday, taking the number of Covid-related deaths in the country to 24.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who was 82, was a well-known GP as well as a politician and author, living in New Zealand. He was briefly prime minister of the Cook Islands in 1999 after serving as the South Pacific nation\u2019s minister of health and education.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/05\/cook-islands-former-pm-dies-of-coronavirus-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Williams, who practised as a GP in Auckland, is praised as a \u2018pioneer\u2019 who will be greatly missed in both countriesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA former prime minister of the Cook Islands, Joseph Williams, has died&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,855,1069,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22455,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions\/22455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}