{"id":342915,"date":"2020-03-23T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T05:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342915"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T05:43:09","slug":"asia-steps-up-virus-efforts-as-second-wave-of-infections-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/asia-steps-up-virus-efforts-as-second-wave-of-infections-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia steps up virus efforts as second wave of infections strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Australia&#8217;s Bondi Beach to the streets of New Delhi, authorities across Asia ramped up efforts this weekend to stem the coronavirus amid fears of a second wave of infections in places where outbreaks had appeared under control.<\/p>\n<p>Tighter travel restrictions were imposed in several countries while Malaysia deployed its army to enforce a lockdown as the number of cases in the region soared past 95,000 &#8212; a third of the world&#8217;s infections, an AFP tally shows.<\/p>\n<p>Outside China &#8212; where the virus was first detected in December and infected more than 80,000 people &#8212; South Korea is the hardest-hit country in Asia with over 8,500 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Australia&#8217;s Bondi Beach to the streets of New Delhi, authorities across Asia ramped up efforts this weekend to stem the coronavirus amid fears of a second wave of infections in places where outbreaks had appeared under control. Tighter travel restrictions were imposed in several countries while Malaysia deployed its army to enforce a lockdown as the number of cases in the region soared past 95,000 &#8212; a third of the world&#8217;s infections, an AFP tally shows. Outside China &#8212; where the virus was first detected in December and infected more than 80,000 people &#8212; South Korea is the hardest-hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}