{"id":24646,"date":"2020-11-11T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T06:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/japan-warns-of-third-wave-amid-rising-covid-infections"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T06:57:39","slug":"japan-warns-of-third-wave-amid-rising-covid-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24646","title":{"rendered":"Japan warns of third wave amid rising Covid infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavily subsidised domestic tourism campaign and colder weather being blamed for rise in cases<\/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>Officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> have warned of an impending third wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> infections amid a rise in cases blamed on colder weather and a government campaign to encourage domestic tourism.<\/p>\n<p>As the prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, vowed to secure enough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/vaccines\">vaccines<\/a> to cover Japan\u2019s entire population, the number of daily cases continued to rise after several weeks of staying relatively stable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/japan-warns-of-third-wave-amid-rising-covid-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavily subsidised domestic tourism campaign and colder weather being blamed for rise in casesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in Japan have warned of an impending third wave of coronavirus infections amid a rise in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","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\/24646","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24646\/revisions\/24647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}