{"id":34983,"date":"2021-08-09T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/manila-covid-lockdown-delta-cases-philippines"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:06:10","slug":"manila-in-lockdown-as-delta-cases-soar-in-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34983","title":{"rendered":"Manila in lockdown as Delta cases soar in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covid death toll hits four-month high amid record case numbers in countries across south-east Asia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The more aggressive Delta variant of Covid-19, detected in the Philippines in mid-July, has spread across much of the country, reaching 13 of 17 regions, health officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Philippines reported a sharp rise in daily Covid fatalities, with 287 deaths, the highest daily increase in four months. A further 9,671 new infections were also confirmed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/manila-covid-lockdown-delta-cases-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid death toll hits four-month high amid record case numbers in countries across south-east AsiaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe more aggressive Delta variant of Covid-19, detected in the Philippines in mid-July, has sp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,1066,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-philippines","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\/34983","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983\/revisions\/34984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}