{"id":32452,"date":"2021-05-25T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/us-tells-citizens-to-avoid-travel-to-japan-due-to-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:50:31","slug":"us-tells-citizens-to-avoid-travel-to-japan-due-to-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32452","title":{"rendered":"US tells citizens to avoid travel to Japan due to Covid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid preparations in Tokyo for the Olympics, which are due to be held from 23 July despite a raging fourth wave<\/p>\n<p>The US has urged its citizens to avoid all travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, where concern is rising over new variants of the coronavirus,<strong> <\/strong>but officials insist the move will not complicate preparations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo 2020 Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state department on Monday issued its highest Level 4 travel warning for Japan, where a month-long state of emergency has helped reduce cases in Tokyo but failed to have a significant impact on the country\u2019s fourth wave of Covid-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/25\/us-tells-citizens-to-avoid-travel-to-japan-due-to-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid preparations in Tokyo for the Olympics, which are due to be held from 23 July despite a raging fourth waveThe US has urged its citizens to avoid all travel to Japan, where concern is rising over new variants of the coronavirus, but offi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,1066,88,882,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-us-news","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\/32452","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32452\/revisions\/32453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}