{"id":32875,"date":"2021-06-07T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/police-in-malaysia-use-drones-to-detect-high-temperatures-amid-covid-surge"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:23:56","slug":"police-in-malaysia-use-drones-to-detect-high-temperatures-amid-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32875","title":{"rendered":"Police in Malaysia use drones to detect high temperatures amid Covid surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have also warned they will use drones to enforce travel restrictions, as Malaysia endures near total lockdown<\/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>Police in Malaysia are using drones to detect people with high temperatures in public spaces as part of Covid prevention measures, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>The drones, which can detect people\u2019s temperatures as high as 20m above ground, emit a red light to alert the authorities if someone has a high reading, Bernama, Malaysia\u2019s state news agency, reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/police-in-malaysia-use-drones-to-detect-high-temperatures-amid-covid-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have also warned they will use drones to enforce travel restrictions, as Malaysia endures near total lockdownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePolice in Malaysia are using drones to detect people with high temperatures &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,1066,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-malaysia","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\/32875","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32876,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32875\/revisions\/32876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}