{"id":34502,"date":"2021-07-28T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/myanmar-could-become-covid-super-spreader-state-says-un-expert"},"modified":"2021-07-28T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:43:09","slug":"myanmar-could-become-covid-super-spreader-state-says-un-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34502","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar could become Covid \u2018super-spreader\u2019 state, says UN expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special rapporteur urges security council to call for ceasefire amid fears Covid will spread across wider region<\/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>Myanmar is at risk of becoming a super-spreader Covid state that fuels outbreaks across the region, the UN special rapporteur for the country has warned as he urged the security council to call for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The south-east Asian country is facing its most severe outbreak yet, on top of a deep political and economic crisis brought about by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">the military coup in February<\/a>. Its vaccination programme has ground to a standstill, testing has collapsed, and government hospitals are barely functioning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/28\/myanmar-could-become-covid-super-spreader-state-says-un-expert\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special rapporteur urges security council to call for ceasefire amid fears Covid will spread across wider regionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMyanmar is at risk of becoming a super-spreader Covid state that fuels outbreaks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[1066,82,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations","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\/34502","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34503,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions\/34503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}