{"id":34488,"date":"2021-07-28T14:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/thailand-puts-covid-patients-on-sleeper-trains-home-to-ease-crisis-in-bangkok"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:34:30","slug":"thailand-puts-covid-patients-on-sleeper-trains-home-to-ease-crisis-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34488","title":{"rendered":"Thailand puts Covid patients on sleeper trains home to ease crisis in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 patients have already been sent home as country faces its third and deadliest wave of coronavirus<\/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>Thailand has begun using sleeper trains to transport Covid patients out of Bangkok, where hospitals have been overwhelmed by a recent surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>The first train left the capital on Tuesday, transporting 137 patients who were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms to their home towns in the north-east of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/thailand-puts-covid-patients-on-sleeper-trains-home-to-ease-crisis-in-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 patients have already been sent home as country faces its third and deadliest wave of coronavirusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThailand has begun using sleeper trains to transport Covid patients out of Bangko&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"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":[41,1066,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34489,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34488\/revisions\/34489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}