{"id":25878,"date":"2020-12-21T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/21\/thailand-begins-covid-testing-blitz-after-biggest-ever-surge-in-cases"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:22:28","slug":"thailand-begins-covid-testing-blitz-after-biggest-ever-surge-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25878","title":{"rendered":"Thailand begins Covid testing blitz after biggest ever surge in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant workers heavily affected by outbreak centred on Central Shrimp Market around 45km from Bangkok<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is testing tens of thousands of people for Covid-19 after an outbreak at a shrimp market led to the biggest surge in cases in the country, which had appeared to have almost eradicated the virus.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 821 infections, mostly among migrant workers, have been linked to the market in Samut Sakhon,<strong> <\/strong>where coronavirus was detected late last week. Cases have since been reported elsewhere, including in Bangkok, which is 45km away by road.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/21\/thailand-begins-covid-testing-blitz-after-biggest-ever-surge-in-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant workers heavily affected by outbreak centred on Central Shrimp Market around 45km from BangkokThailand is testing tens of thousands of people for Covid-19 after an outbreak at a shrimp market led to the biggest surge in cases in the country, wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,1066,914,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-thailand","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\/25878","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25879,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions\/25879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}