{"id":31124,"date":"2021-04-19T23:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/thailand-and-cambodia-rush-to-halt-wave-of-covid-cases"},"modified":"2021-04-19T23:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:17:58","slug":"thailand-and-cambodia-rush-to-halt-waves-of-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31124","title":{"rendered":"Thailand and Cambodia rush to halt waves of Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two south-east Asian neighbours face a challenge after keeping infection numbers low last year<\/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>After managing to control the coronavirus for much of 2020, Thailand is battling a fresh outbreak of Covid-19, with officials setting up thousands of beds in field hospitals and warning the public to stay at home.<\/p>\n<p>A cluster of Covid cases emerged in Bangkok\u2019s nightlife venues last month, just before the Songkran new year holiday, when many Thais travel across the country to celebrate with their families. Following record daily increases last week, tighter measures were introduced from Sunday, including the closure of schools for two weeks. Bars have been shut, restaurants banned from serving alcohol and the opening hours of shopping malls have been reduced in areas such as Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/19\/thailand-and-cambodia-rush-to-halt-wave-of-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two south-east Asian neighbours face a challenge after keeping infection numbers low last yearCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter managing to control the coronavirus for much of 2020, Thailand is battling a fresh outbreak &#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":[41,361,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124","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=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions\/31125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}