{"id":42235,"date":"2022-03-07T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/chatham-islands-one-of-worlds-most-remote-places-records-first-covid-cases"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T01:54:36","slug":"chatham-islands-one-of-worlds-most-remote-places-records-first-covid-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42235","title":{"rendered":"Chatham Islands, one of world\u2019s most remote places, records first Covid cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The islands, 800km east of New Zealand, had been among several other isolated nations and territories that had so far evaded the virus<\/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>After nearly two years of dodging Covid-19, one of the most remote inhabited places in the world has recorded its first ever cases of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>R\u0113kohu, or the Chatham Islands, are just over 800km east of New Zealand\u2019s mainland and are home to roughly 600 permanent residents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/07\/chatham-islands-one-of-worlds-most-remote-places-records-first-covid-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The islands, 800km east of New Zealand, had been among several other isolated nations and territories that had so far evaded the virusSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter nearly two years of dodging Covid-19, one of the most remote inhabited places in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,1066,56,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","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\/42235","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions\/42236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}