{"id":35473,"date":"2021-08-19T02:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/png-authorities-order-corpses-to-be-swabbed-amid-fear-of-undetected-delta-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-08-19T02:30:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:30:23","slug":"png-authorities-order-corpses-to-be-swabbed-amid-fear-of-undetected-delta-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35473","title":{"rendered":"PNG authorities order corpses to be swabbed amid fear of undetected Delta outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Papua New Guinea\u2019s chief health officers warns low vaccination and testing rates are a \u2018recipe for major spread\u2019 of deadly strain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of Papua New Guinea\u2019s chief health officers has warned the country\u2019s low testing rates, high percentage of positive tests and low vaccination rates provide a \u201crecipe for major spread of the Delta variant\u201d after the country recorded its 12th case of the deadly strain.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Daoni Esorom, the deputy controller of PNG\u2019s national pandemic response, said officials were so concerned that low testing rates were masking a serious outbreak that they had ordered doctors at the country\u2019s biggest hospital to swab all corpses of people who had died from unknown causes or who had respiratory illnesses, to see if they had Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/png-authorities-order-corpses-to-be-swabbed-amid-fear-of-undetected-delta-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Papua New Guinea\u2019s chief health officers warns low vaccination and testing rates are a \u2018recipe for major spread\u2019 of deadly strainSee all our coronavirus coverageOne of Papua New Guinea\u2019s chief health officers has warned the country\u2019s low testing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"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":[41,1066,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/35473","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\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473\/revisions\/35474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}