{"id":34588,"date":"2021-07-30T23:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/japan-expands-covid-state-of-emergency-to-four-more-areas"},"modified":"2021-07-30T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:33:08","slug":"japan-expands-covid-state-of-emergency-to-four-more-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34588","title":{"rendered":"Japan expands Covid state of emergency to four more areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures in Tokyo also extended until 31 August, after the Olympics and well into the Paralympics<\/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>Japan has expanded its coronavirus state of emergency to four more areas beyond Tokyo after record increases in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics Games.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, declared an emergency in Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba near Tokyo and in the western city of Osaka, effective from Monday until 31 August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/30\/japan-expands-covid-state-of-emergency-to-four-more-areas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures in Tokyo also extended until 31 August, after the Olympics and well into the ParalympicsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan has expanded its coronavirus state of emergency to four more areas beyond Tokyo after rec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"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":[41,1066,88,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","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\/34588","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\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34588\/revisions\/34589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}