{"id":31792,"date":"2021-05-06T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/fiji-seals-off-major-hospital-and-quarantines-hundreds-after-covid-death"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T04:57:22","slug":"fiji-seals-off-major-hospital-and-quarantines-hundreds-after-covid-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31792","title":{"rendered":"Fiji seals off major hospital and quarantines hundreds after Covid death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital closure comes as the Pacific country tries to contain a second wave of the virus with lockdowns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fiji has closed its second largest hospital amid fears that a patient who died of Covid-19 may have infected multiple staff members. The 53-year-old man was only the Pacific country\u2019s third Covid-related death since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 patients, doctors, nurses and other medical staff were being quarantined at Lautoka hospital as of Wednesday, after a doctor who had treated the man also tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/fiji-seals-off-major-hospital-and-quarantines-hundreds-after-covid-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital closure comes as the Pacific country tries to contain a second wave of the virus with lockdownsSee all our coronavirus coverageFiji has closed its second largest hospital amid fears that a patient who died of Covid-19 may have infected multipl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":928,"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":[41,1066,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/31792","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\/928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31793,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792\/revisions\/31793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}