{"id":26480,"date":"2021-01-08T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/global-report-asia-pacific-countries-toughen-covid-curbs-as-cases-grow"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:09:21","slug":"global-report-asia-pacific-countries-toughen-covid-curbs-as-cases-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26480","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Asia-Pacific countries toughen Covid curbs as cases grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand extends state of emergency as Indonesia seeks halal approval ahead of mass vaccinations <\/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>Coronavirus is surging again in countries across the Asia-Pacific region, forcing states of emergency and a fresh spate of lockdowns to prevent it taking hold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thailand<\/strong> has extended its state of emergency by another month, until 21 February, and tightened travel restriction in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Taweesilp Visanuyothin, a spokesperson for the Covid-19 coordinating centre, said on Thursday there were 305 new cases and one death. That brought total confirmed cases to 9,636, with 67 deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/08\/global-report-asia-pacific-countries-toughen-covid-curbs-as-cases-grow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand extends state of emergency as Indonesia seeks halal approval ahead of mass vaccinations Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus is surging again in countries across the Asia-Pacific region, forcing states of eme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1798,"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":[41,50,1066,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/26480","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\/1798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26480\/revisions\/26482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}