{"id":105305,"date":"2020-04-14T08:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hokkaido-declares-new-state-of-emergency-amid-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T15:43:16","slug":"hokkaido-declares-new-state-of-emergency-amid-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hokkaido-declares-new-state-of-emergency-amid-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections","title":{"rendered":"Hokkaido declares new state of emergency amid \u2018second wave\u2019 of coronavirus infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hokkaido-declares-new-state-of-emergency-amid-second-wave-of-coronavirus-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Hokkaido was not covered in the state\u2019s declaration of an emergency, the prefectural government and the municipal government of Sapporo, the prefectural capital, issued a joint emergency declaration following reports of double-digit increases in infections for the fifth straight day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are facing a crisis of a second wave in the spread of (the coronavirus) infections,\u201d Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki told reporters, asking residents to refrain from making nonessential outings.<\/p>\n<p>Hokkaido had declared its own state of emergency on Feb. 28 ahead of the government and lifted it on March 19, citing signs that the coronavirus spread was abating in the prefecture, a popular area for both Japanese and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Hokkaido was not covered in the state\u2019s declaration of an emergency, the prefectural government and the municipal government of Sapporo, the prefectural capital, issued a joint emergency declaration following reports of double-digit increases in infections for the fifth straight day. \u201cWe are facing a crisis of a second wave in the spread of (the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}