{"id":34278,"date":"2021-07-22T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/fiji-reports-record-covid-deaths-including-two-pregnant-women"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T03:30:28","slug":"fiji-reports-record-covid-deaths-including-two-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34278","title":{"rendered":"Fiji reports record Covid deaths, including two pregnant women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both babies survived after doctors performed emergency caesarean sections<\/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>Fiji has reported a record number of Covid deaths over the past week, including two pregnant women, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/06\/im-always-afraid-fiji-reels-as-it-moves-from-covid-haven-to-frontline\">the country struggles to contain a severe outbreak<\/a> of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 21 people died between 14 and 20 July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.gov.fj\/covid-19-situation-update-22\/\">the country\u2019s health minister, James Fong, said<\/a>. Another 1,091 new Covid cases were also confirmed in the 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/fiji-reports-record-covid-deaths-including-two-pregnant-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both babies survived after doctors performed emergency caesarean sectionsSee all our coronavirus coverageFiji has reported a record number of Covid deaths over the past week, including two pregnant women, as the country struggles to contain a severe ou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"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":[41,1066,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/34278","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\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions\/34279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}