{"id":33821,"date":"2021-07-07T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/asia-pacific-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-infections-as-delta-strain-threatens-new-wave"},"modified":"2021-07-07T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T04:22:31","slug":"asia-pacific-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-infections-as-delta-strain-threatens-new-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33821","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific sees sharp rise in Covid infections as Delta strain threatens new wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From South Korea to Australia, authorities are struggling to contain the highly transmissible coronavirus strain that has caused a surge in UK, Europe and US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Countries throughout Asia Pacific \u2013 from South Korea to Australia \u2013 have been hit by a rise in coronavirus infections as the Delta variant threatens a new wave of the pandemic even in a region renowned for tackling the virus with a high degree of success. <\/p>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong> reported 57 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for 6 July, up from 23 cases a day earlier, the national health authority said on Wednesday. It was the highest daily tally of infections since 30 January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/asia-pacific-sees-sharp-rise-in-covid-infections-as-delta-strain-threatens-new-wave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From South Korea to Australia, authorities are struggling to contain the highly transmissible coronavirus strain that has caused a surge in UK, Europe and USSee all our coronavirus coverageCountries throughout Asia Pacific \u2013 from South Korea to Austral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,43,50,1066,222,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-south-korea","category-thailand","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\/33821","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821\/revisions\/33822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}