{"id":34139,"date":"2021-07-17T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/thailand-bans-public-gatherings-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T04:58:05","slug":"thailand-bans-public-gatherings-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34139","title":{"rendered":"Thailand bans public gatherings as Covid cases hit record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More restrictions are being considered as the country battles its worst outbreak yet<\/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><strong>Thailand<\/strong> has imposed a nationwide ban on public gatherings and was considering more restrictions on movement as authorities reported record numbers of new cases and deaths on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite partial lockdowns in Bangkok and nine other provinces this week, the country\u2019s Covid-19 task force reported 10,082 new coronavirus cases and 141 new deaths, bringing the total number of infections to 391,989 cases and 3,240 fatalities since the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/thailand-bans-public-gatherings-as-covid-cases-hit-record-high\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More restrictions are being considered as the country battles its worst outbreak yetSee all our coronavirus coverageThailand has imposed a nationwide ban on public gatherings and was considering more restrictions on movement as authorities reported rec&#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":[41,50,1066,156,914,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139","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=34139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34140,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34139\/revisions\/34140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}