{"id":36555,"date":"2021-09-07T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/vietnam-man-jailed-for-five-years-for-spreading-coronavirus"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:17:58","slug":"vietnam-man-jailed-for-five-years-for-spreading-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36555","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam man jailed for five years for spreading coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man was sentenced for \u2018spreading dangerous infectious disease\u2019 after breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight people<\/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>A court in Vietnam has jailed a man for five years for breaking strict Covid quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of \u201cspreading dangerous infectious diseases\u201d at a one-day trial on Monday at the people\u2019s court of the southern province of Ca Mau, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/vietnam-man-jailed-for-five-years-for-spreading-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man was sentenced for \u2018spreading dangerous infectious disease\u2019 after breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight peopleSee all our coronavirus coverageA court in Vietnam has jailed a man for five years for breaking strict Covid q&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[1066,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-vietnam","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\/36555","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36556,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36555\/revisions\/36556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}