{"id":47003,"date":"2022-08-02T19:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/japan-may-rethink-reporting-of-covid-cases-as-subvariant-hits-hard"},"modified":"2022-08-02T19:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:05:43","slug":"japan-may-rethink-reporting-of-covid-cases-as-subvariant-hits-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47003","title":{"rendered":"Japan may rethink reporting of Covid cases as subvariant hits hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo considers measures to ease pressure on hospitals as country struggles to contain outbreak<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> could soon overhaul its battle against coronavirus to relieve pressure on hospitals as it struggles to cope with its biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/from-near-disaster-to-success-story-how-japan-has-tackled-coronavirus\">fared comparatively well<\/a> during the pandemic, with about 32,000 deaths among a population of 126 million, but has recently reported more than 200,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> cases a day \u2013 more than any other country \u2013 as the BA.5 subvariant hits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/japan-may-rethink-reporting-of-covid-cases-as-subvariant-hits-hard\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo considers measures to ease pressure on hospitals as country struggles to contain outbreakJapan could soon overhaul its battle against coronavirus to relieve pressure on hospitals as it struggles to cope with its biggest outbreak since the start o&#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":[41,1066,914,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47003","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=47003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47003\/revisions\/47004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}