{"id":31714,"date":"2021-05-03T19:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/everest-covid-outbreak-throws-climbing-season-into-doubt"},"modified":"2021-05-03T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:12:16","slug":"everest-covid-outbreak-throws-climbing-season-into-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31714","title":{"rendered":"Everest Covid outbreak throws climbing season into doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal authorities accused of underplaying seriousness of situation as daily cases soar<\/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>The coronavirus outbreak at Everest base camp in Nepal, controversially opened to climbers despite the pandemic, has infected \u201cmany people\u201d amid continuing evacuations and complaints of lack of transparency over the severity of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>With Nepal reporting a record number of more than 7,000 new cases in a day, its highest total since October, reports from Everest described a number of evacuations of climbers showing symptoms of Covid-19 even as doctors at base camp complained privately they were not being allowed by the country\u2019s ministry of health to undertake PCR testing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/everest-covid-outbreak-throws-climbing-season-into-doubt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal authorities accused of underplaying seriousness of situation as daily cases soarCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus outbreak at Everest base camp in Nepal, controversially opened to climbers despite the pan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[608,239,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/31714","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions\/31715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}