{"id":34680,"date":"2021-08-02T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/fiji-has-the-highest-per-capita-rate-of-covid-19-in-the-world"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T02:25:58","slug":"fijis-emergency-covid-19-hotline-fell-silent-during-the-rugby-sevens-final-we-really-needed-this-win-sheldon-chanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34680","title":{"rendered":"Fiji\u2019s emergency Covid-19 hotline fell silent during the rugby sevens final: we really needed this win | Sheldon Chanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s gold and women\u2019s bronze medals meant everything to Fiji, which has the highest per-capita Covid infection rate in the world<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/jul\/28\/fiji-stun-all-blacks-in-rugby-sevens-final-to-win-olympic-gold-again\">Fijian men\u2019s sevens team beat New Zealand<\/a> to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the entire nation celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>The win could not have come at a better time. Fiji is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/fiji-reports-record-covid-deaths-including-two-pregnant-women\">grip of a deadly second outbreak of Covid-19<\/a>, on top of a potential political crisis over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/26\/nine-fiji-opposition-mps-arrested-criticism-land-bill\">controversial native land legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/fiji-has-the-highest-per-capita-rate-of-covid-19-in-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s gold and women\u2019s bronze medals meant everything to Fiji, which has the highest per-capita Covid infection rate in the worldWhen the Fijian men\u2019s sevens team beat New Zealand to win gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, the entire nation ce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"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":[41,1066,436,342,874,2270,203,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-fiji","category-olympic-games","category-pacific-islands","category-rugby-sevens","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680","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\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34681,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions\/34681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}