{"id":47492,"date":"2022-08-15T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T05:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/marshall-islands-haven-from-covid-for-two-years-gets-3000-cases-in-space-of-weeks"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T05:46:22","slug":"marshall-islands-haven-from-covid-for-two-years-gets-3000-cases-in-space-of-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47492","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Islands, haven from Covid for two years, gets 3,000 cases in space of weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country had recorded no community transmission of the virus until last week, and healthcare is struggling to cope<\/p>\n<p>After dodging the Covid-19 pandemic for two years, the Marshall Islands is grappling to control the spread of infections, which have tripled since the first community transmissions were detected a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>The number of positive cases in the north Pacific nation, which has a population of about 60,000 people, has skyrocketed to more than 3,000 cases with four Covid-linked deaths and seven hospital admissions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/15\/marshall-islands-haven-from-covid-for-two-years-gets-3000-cases-in-space-of-weeks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country had recorded no community transmission of the virus until last week, and healthcare is struggling to copeAfter dodging the Covid-19 pandemic for two years, the Marshall Islands is grappling to control the spread of infections, which hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"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":[41,602,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-marshall-islands","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\/47492","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\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47493,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47492\/revisions\/47493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}