{"id":37427,"date":"2021-09-28T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/28\/japan-to-end-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-plummet"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:29:15","slug":"japan-to-end-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37427","title":{"rendered":"Japan to end state of emergency as Covid cases plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions in 27 of country\u2019s 47 prefectures to end on Thursday, PM Yoshihide Suga announces<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> will lift emergency coronavirus measures across the board at the end of this week, amid a dramatic fall in cases and rapid progress in its vaccination rollout.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, said restrictions in 27 of Japan\u2019s 47 prefectures would end on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/28\/japan-to-end-state-of-emergency-as-covid-cases-plummet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions in 27 of country\u2019s 47 prefectures to end on Thursday, PM Yoshihide Suga announcesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan will lift emergency coronavirus measures across the board at the end of this week, amid a dr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[41,1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan","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\/37427","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions\/37428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}