{"id":35660,"date":"2021-08-22T01:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/raging-delta-variant-takes-its-toll-as-philippines-runs-out-of-nurses"},"modified":"2021-08-22T01:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:21:05","slug":"raging-delta-variant-takes-its-toll-as-philippines-runs-out-of-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35660","title":{"rendered":"Raging Delta variant takes its toll as Philippines runs out of nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Covid Delta variant has swept across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/red-cross-sounds-vaccines-alarm-as-covid-deaths-in-south-east-asia-soar\" title=\"\">south-east Asia<\/a> over recent months, prompting lockdowns and overwhelming hospitals \u2013 from Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. Now the impact is being felt in the Philippines, just as the country\u2019s chronic lack of health workers reaches a crisis point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disease has become very aggressive,\u201d said Michael Bilan, who works on a Covid ward in Manila. This time, patients tend to require a higher amount of oxygen, for longer, he said. The number of Covid patients is also at a record high: last week, 277 were receiving treatment. New wards have been opened to meet demand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/raging-delta-variant-takes-its-toll-as-philippines-runs-out-of-nurses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad pay and conditions at home and demand for Filipino nursing skills overseas have left the country with a soaring death rateCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Covid Delta variant has swept across south-east Asia over rece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,1066,346,914,1076,55,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-nursing","category-philippines","category-society","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\/35660","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660\/revisions\/35661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}