{"id":46277,"date":"2022-07-11T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T04:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/macau-shuts-all-casinos-in-bid-to-contain-worsening-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T04:14:41","slug":"macau-shuts-all-casinos-in-bid-to-contain-worsening-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46277","title":{"rendered":"Macau shuts all casinos in bid to contain worsening Covid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 closed for a week \u2013 with extension thought likely \u2013 and dozens of city zones locked down in gambling hub<\/p>\n<p>Macau has shut all its casinos for the first time in more than two years as authorities struggle to contain the worst coronavirus outbreak yet in the world\u2019s biggest gambling hub.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s 30-plus casinos, along with other non-essential businesses, will shut for one week from Monday and people have been ordered to stay at home. Police would monitor flows of people outside, the government said, and stringent punishments would be imposed for those who disobeyed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/11\/macau-shuts-all-casinos-in-bid-to-contain-worsening-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 closed for a week \u2013 with extension thought likely \u2013 and dozens of city zones locked down in gambling hubMacau has shut all its casinos for the first time in more than two years as authorities struggle to contain the worst coronavirus outbr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,1066,1730,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-gambling","category-macau"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions\/46278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}