{"id":32150,"date":"2021-05-16T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/16\/lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise"},"modified":"2021-05-16T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T10:38:24","slug":"lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32150","title":{"rendered":"Lockdowns and panic-buying in Taiwan as Covid cases rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country widely considered to have had one of best pandemic responses now racing to contain outbreak<\/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>Taiwan reported 206 new local cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, breaking the previous day\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/taiwan-records-180-new-cases-in-islands-worst-covid-outbreak-of-pandemic\">record high of 180<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak, which began about three weeks ago among employees of the national airline and a connected quarantine hotel, has now produced about 85% of Taiwan\u2019s total number of locally transmitted cases since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/16\/lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country widely considered to have had one of best pandemic responses now racing to contain outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan reported 206 new local cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, breaking the previous day\u2019s record&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,1066,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","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\/32150","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32158,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32150\/revisions\/32158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}