{"id":38770,"date":"2021-11-09T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/singapore-to-start-charging-covid-patients-who-are-unvaccinated-by-choice"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T06:38:22","slug":"singapore-to-start-charging-covid-patients-who-are-unvaccinated-by-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38770","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to start charging Covid patients who are \u2018unvaccinated by choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say unvaccinated people make up a \u2018sizeable majority\u2019 of those needing the most intensive care<\/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>Singapore will no longer pay the Covid-19 medical bills for people \u201cunvaccinated by choice\u201d, the government said, as the country grapples with a surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>The government currently covers the full Covid medical costs for all Singaporeans, as well as permanent residents and long-term visa holders, unless they test positive soon after returning home from overseas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/singapore-to-start-charging-covid-patients-who-are-unvaccinated-by-choice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say unvaccinated people make up a \u2018sizeable majority\u2019 of those needing the most intensive careSee all our coronavirus coverageSingapore will no longer pay the Covid-19 medical bills for people \u201cunvaccinated by choice\u201d, the government said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2679,"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":[1066,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38770","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\/2679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38770\/revisions\/38771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}