{"id":41203,"date":"2022-01-30T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/felt-like-a-bullet-bhutan-prime-minister-mourns-rare-covid-death"},"modified":"2022-01-30T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:42:06","slug":"felt-like-a-bullet-bhutan-prime-minister-mourns-rare-covid-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41203","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Felt like a bullet\u2019: Bhutan prime minister mourns rare Covid death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost any other country<\/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>Bhutan\u2019s success in avoiding coronavirus is almost unrivalled but a rare patient death \u2013 just the kingdom\u2019s fourth \u2013 shows more work was needed to fight the pandemic there, its leader says.<\/p>\n<p>The remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people, sandwiched between China and India, has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/30\/felt-like-a-bullet-bhutan-prime-minister-mourns-rare-covid-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost any other countrySee all our coronavirus coverageBhutan\u2019s success in avoiding coronavirus is almost unrivalled but a rare patient death \u2013 just the king&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"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":[1786,1066,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan","category-coronavirus","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203","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\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41204,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41203\/revisions\/41204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}