{"id":40321,"date":"2022-01-05T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/okinawa-may-declare-emergency-covid-measures-as-virus-spreads-from-us-base"},"modified":"2022-01-05T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:41:58","slug":"okinawa-may-declare-emergency-covid-measures-as-virus-spreads-from-us-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40321","title":{"rendered":"Okinawa may declare emergency Covid measures as virus spreads from US base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New cases on island outpacing those in Tokyo amid criticism of US forces for failing to contain Omicron outbreak<\/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>Japan\u2019s government is poised to declare a quasi-state of emergency on the southern island of Okinawa, media reports said, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> outbreak traced to US military bases spread to the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, could announce the measures this week, the Mainichi newspaper said, after Okinawa officials reported 225 new cases on Tuesday, including 47 of the Omicron strain. Tokyo, by comparison, registered 151 new infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/okinawa-may-declare-emergency-covid-measures-as-virus-spreads-from-us-base\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cases on island outpacing those in Tokyo amid criticism of US forces for failing to contain Omicron outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan\u2019s government is poised to declare a quasi-state of emergency on the southe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321\/revisions\/40322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}