{"id":25930,"date":"2020-12-22T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/taiwan-confirms-first-local-covid-case-in-more-than-250-days"},"modified":"2020-12-22T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T08:45:29","slug":"pilot-blamed-for-taiwans-first-local-covid-transmission-since-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25930","title":{"rendered":"Pilot blamed for Taiwan&#8217;s first local Covid transmission since April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese woman had contact with New Zealander who had flown flights to US<\/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>Taiwan has reported its first local coronavirus transmission since 12 April, blaming a foreign pilot for ending 253 virus-free days.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities said a woman in her thirties had tested positive after having contact with the pilot, a New Zealander working for a Taiwanese airline who was confirmed to have been infected on Sunday after flying planes to the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/22\/taiwan-confirms-first-local-covid-case-in-more-than-250-days\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese woman had contact with New Zealander who had flown flights to USCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reported its first local coronavirus transmission since 12 April, blaming a foreign pilot for ending 253 vi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"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":[41,1066,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","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\/25930","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions\/25931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}