{"id":31302,"date":"2021-04-23T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/japan-set-to-announce-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-surge"},"modified":"2021-04-23T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:12:22","slug":"japan-to-declare-targeted-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31302","title":{"rendered":"Japan declares targeted state of emergency as Covid cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga under pressure to act after sharp rise in infections in Tokyo, only months before Olympics<\/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>Japan has declared a targeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/japan-set-to-declare-state-of-emergency-in-tokyo-amid-pre-olympics-covid-surge\">state of emergency<\/a> for Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefectures in an attempt to halt a surge in coronavirus cases, just three months before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The measures will go into effect in the four areas \u2013 covering about a quarter of Japan\u2019s population and a third of its economy \u2013 from Sunday until at least 11 May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/japan-set-to-announce-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga under pressure to act after sharp rise in infections in Tokyo, only months before OlympicsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan has declared a targeted state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and two other prefect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,914,88,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-science","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\/31302","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31302\/revisions\/31332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}