{"id":32335,"date":"2021-05-21T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/21\/myanmar-doctors-sound-covid-warning-as-neighbours-see-record-cases"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:59:59","slug":"myanmar-doctors-sound-covid-warning-as-neighbours-see-record-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32335","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar doctors sound Covid warning as neighbours see record cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The potential arrival of a highly transmissable variant could overwhelm health systems already struggling after military coup<\/p>\n<p>Doctors in Myanmar have warned the country would be unable to cope with a major outbreak of Covid-19 as hospitals and medical facilities struggle to function in the aftermath of February\u2019s military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Fears are growing about the potential impact of a highly transmissible variant as neighbouring countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/stench-death-pervades-rural-india-ganges-swells-covid-victims\">chiefly India<\/a> but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-57139690\">Thailand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/aseanplus\/aseanplus-news\/2021\/05\/20\/laos-extends-lockdown-as-covid-19-cases-continue-to-surge\">Laos<\/a>, battle record numbers of Covid cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/may\/21\/myanmar-doctors-sound-covid-warning-as-neighbours-see-record-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential arrival of a highly transmissable variant could overwhelm health systems already struggling after military coupDoctors in Myanmar have warned the country would be unable to cope with a major outbreak of Covid-19 as hospitals and medical f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2200,"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":[1066,59,914,82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-myanmar","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\/32335","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\/2200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32336,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32335\/revisions\/32336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}