{"id":31505,"date":"2021-04-28T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/fears-of-covid-tsunami-in-fiji-after-outbreak-found-to-be-indian-variant"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T03:00:18","slug":"fears-of-covid-tsunami-in-fiji-after-outbreak-found-to-be-indian-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31505","title":{"rendered":"Fears of Covid \u2018tsunami\u2019 in Fiji after outbreak found to be Indian variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 outbreak in Pacific nation has forced lockdowns across the country, after the island nation avoided transmission for a year <\/p>\n<p>Fijian health officials are bracing for a \u201ctsunami\u201d of Covid-19 cases, after the Indian variant was detected in the Pacific nation this week, with lockdowns announced in an attempt to stem the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific country had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/covid-coronavirus-deserted-islands-pacific-resorts-struggle-to-survive-a-year-without-tourists\">largely managed to avoid community transmission over the course of the pandemic<\/a>, before a cluster emerged this month linked to a quarantine facility, and exacerbated after a woman with the virus attended a funeral with 500 people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/28\/fears-of-covid-tsunami-in-fiji-after-outbreak-found-to-be-indian-variant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 outbreak in Pacific nation has forced lockdowns across the country, after the island nation avoided transmission for a year Fijian health officials are bracing for a \u201ctsunami\u201d of Covid-19 cases, after the Indian variant was detected in the Pac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2141,"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":[41,1066,436,914,874,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","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\/31505","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\/2141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions\/31506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}