{"id":35509,"date":"2021-08-19T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/japan-sees-record-number-of-covid-cases-days-before-paralympics-begin"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:31:54","slug":"japan-sees-record-number-of-covid-cases-days-before-paralympics-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35509","title":{"rendered":"Japan sees record number of Covid cases days before Paralympics begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critical care beds are nearing capacity in Tokyo and prefectures outside the capital are also tackling worst ever outbreak<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan has recorded a record number of coronavirus cases while critical care beds in Tokyo are nearing capacity less than a week before the city is due to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/tokyo-paralympic-games-2020\">Paralympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> infections has spread well beyond Tokyo, the centre of previous outbreaks, with Osaka, neighbouring Hyogo and other prefectures all reporting record caseloads on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/japan-sees-record-number-of-covid-cases-days-before-paralympics-begin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical care beds are nearing capacity in Tokyo and prefectures outside the capital are also tackling worst ever outbreakSee all our coronavirus coverage Japan has recorded a record number of coronavirus cases while critical care beds in Tokyo are nea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[1066,88,2298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-paralympics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35509","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35510,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35509\/revisions\/35510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}