{"id":32543,"date":"2021-05-28T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/japan-tokyo-olympic-games-extend-emergency-covid-measures"},"modified":"2021-05-28T21:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T12:07:20","slug":"japan-expected-to-extend-emergency-covid-measures-less-than-two-months-ahead-of-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32543","title":{"rendered":"Japan extends emergency Covid rules less than two months before Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say case numbers in Tokyo need to be much lower to prevent another surge during the Games<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has extended emergency coronavirus measures in Tokyo and several other regions as the country struggles to rein in the latest wave of infections less than two months before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency \u2013 the third in the capital since the start of the pandemic \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/japan-set-to-announce-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-surge\">was called in late April<\/a> and due to end on 11 May but was extended until the end of this month, as restrictions on businesses failed to make a dent in infections. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/japan-tokyo-olympic-games-extend-emergency-covid-measures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say case numbers in Tokyo need to be much lower to prevent another surge during the GamesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Japan has extended emergency coronavirus measures in Tokyo and several other regions as the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,88,342,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","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\/32543","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32543\/revisions\/32568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}