{"id":138,"date":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/27\/singapore-record-number-new-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T07:00:00","slug":"singapore-record-number-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/02\/27\/singapore-record-number-new-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Live Updates: Singapore Sees Record Number of New Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For eight weeks the case curve was the flattest in the region, and the containment strategy was studied everywhere. This week the figure tripled in four days.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where the cases are concentrated<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overwhelming majority are among migrant workers living in shared dormitory accommodation, a population that the country\u2019s otherwise dense testing and tracing regime had largely not reached.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The response has been rapid: mass testing of every dormitory, isolation of confirmed cases outside the blocks, and a public commitment to medical care regardless of status.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wider lesson is being drawn elsewhere already: a containment strategy is only as complete as the population it counts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country held up for months as a model of containment reported its highest single-day total, almost all of it traced to one sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}