{"id":29889,"date":"2021-03-18T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/papua-new-guinea-to-impose-month-long-restrictions-as-covid-outbreak-spirals"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:33:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:33:10","slug":"papua-new-guinea-to-impose-harsh-control-measures-as-covid-outbreak-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29889","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea to impose &#8216;harsh control measures&#8217; as Covid outbreak spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG\u2019s fragile health system \u2018like a tornado\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea will go into a month-long nationwide isolation in an effort to arrest a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak that threatens to rip through the country\u2019s fragile health system \u201clike a tornado\u201d, health officials say, shutting hospitals and leaving wards without sufficient staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals across the country have already been forced to shut wards and departments, overwhelmed by a combination of staff becoming infected with the coronavirus, surging patient demand, and swingeing budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/papua-new-guinea-to-impose-month-long-restrictions-as-covid-outbreak-spirals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG\u2019s fragile health system \u2018like a tornado\u2019 Papua New Guinea will go into a month-long nationwide isolation in an effort to arrest a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":408,"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":[41,43,1066,346,914,874,267,680,1910],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-queensland","category-torres-strait-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889","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\/408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29889\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}