{"id":38212,"date":"2021-10-21T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/singapore-hospitals-risk-being-overwhelmed-after-record-daily-covid-deaths"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:01:55","slug":"singapore-hospitals-risk-being-overwhelmed-after-record-daily-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38212","title":{"rendered":"Singapore hospitals risk being \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 after record daily Covid deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death of 18 people forces more social restrictions even as city-state expands quarantine-free travel to eight countries<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s healthcare system is at risk of being \u201coverwhelmed\u201d by surging coronavirus infections, government officials warned on Wednesday, a day after the city-state expanded quarantine-free travel as it shifts its approach to dealing with the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry reported 18 deaths on Wednesday \u2013 Singapore\u2019s highest toll in a single day \u2013 and 3,862 more cases, just shy of the record 3,994 tallied the day before.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/21\/singapore-hospitals-risk-being-overwhelmed-after-record-daily-covid-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death of 18 people forces more social restrictions even as city-state expands quarantine-free travel to eight countriesSingapore\u2019s healthcare system is at risk of being \u201coverwhelmed\u201d by surging coronavirus infections, government officials warned on Wed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,1066,346,914,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-singapore","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\/38212","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38212\/revisions\/38213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}