{"id":25956,"date":"2020-12-23T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/23\/taiwan-imposes-new-regulations-after-first-covid-case-since-april"},"modified":"2020-12-23T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T08:07:20","slug":"taiwan-imposes-new-regulations-after-first-covid-case-since-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25956","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan imposes new regulations after first Covid case since April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens urged to stay vigilant as investigation continues into New Zealand-born pilot blamed for spreading infection<\/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>The change in Taipei was subtle but apparent. Within hours of authorities announcing Taiwan\u2019s first community transmission of Covid-19 since April, more people were wearing masks in more places, and hand sanitiser dispensers appeared in doorways, positioned so people would have to step around them to avoid the hint.<\/p>\n<p>Until Tuesday Taiwan had gone 253 days without a local case of the virus. The circumstances around the new case have sparked fear and anger.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/23\/taiwan-imposes-new-regulations-after-first-covid-case-since-april\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens urged to stay vigilant as investigation continues into New Zealand-born pilot blamed for spreading infectionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe change in Taipei was subtle but apparent. Within hours of authorities a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,918,1066,914,512,916,299,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956\/revisions\/25957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}