{"id":32264,"date":"2021-05-19T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/taiwan-raises-covid-alert-level-amid-rise-in-infections"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:57:57","slug":"taiwan-raises-covid-alert-level-nationwide-as-infections-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32264","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan raises Covid alert level nationwide as infections increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities impose mask-wearing and limit gatherings after outbreak spreads to half of island\u2019s counties <\/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 whole of Taiwan will move into level 3 of its four-tier coronavirus alert system, after cases spread to more than half the island\u2019s counties, infecting more than 1,300 people and killing two.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts have expressed concern that Taiwan has been \u201ca victim of its own success\u201d and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/how-did-covid-slip-through-taiwans-gold-standard-defences\">caught short by the outbreak<\/a> of the UK variant, with outdated preparations. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/19\/taiwan-raises-covid-alert-level-amid-rise-in-infections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities impose mask-wearing and limit gatherings after outbreak spreads to half of island\u2019s counties Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe whole of Taiwan will move into level 3 of its four-tier coronavirus alert system, a&#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":[41,1066,914,512,916,299,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264","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=32264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32265,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32264\/revisions\/32265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}