{"id":31772,"date":"2021-05-05T22:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/05\/nepal-report-19-positive-covid-test-dhaulagiri-base-camp"},"modified":"2021-05-05T22:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:37:24","slug":"nepal-reports-19-positive-covid-tests-at-dhaulagiri-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31772","title":{"rendered":"Nepal reports 19 positive Covid tests at Dhaulagiri base camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to allow expeditions to go ahead dealt blow after outbreak on world\u2019s seventh highest mountain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s decision to allow people to continue to climb its Himalayan peaks as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/apr\/30\/nepal-facing-deadly-covid-wave-similar-to-india-doctors-warn\">a vicious Covid-19 wave sweeps the country<\/a> was dealt a further blow after 19 more climbers tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/03\/everest-covid-outbreak-throws-climbing-season-into-doubt\">it was reported that the pandemic had reached Everest base camp<\/a> and though officials later denied it, climbers have reported a wave of infections that were being covered up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/05\/nepal-report-19-positive-covid-test-dhaulagiri-base-camp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to allow expeditions to go ahead dealt blow after outbreak on world\u2019s seventh highest mountainCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNepal\u2019s decision to allow people to continue to climb its Himalayan peaks as a vicious Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2160,"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":[1066,59,608,239,760,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-mountains","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\/31772","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\/2160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31772\/revisions\/31773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}