{"id":118390,"date":"2021-01-11T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/japans-suga-declares-state-of-emergency-for-tokyo-as-covid-19-cases-surge"},"modified":"2021-01-11T21:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:30:21","slug":"japans-suga-declares-state-of-emergency-for-tokyo-as-covid-19-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/japans-suga-declares-state-of-emergency-for-tokyo-as-covid-19-cases-surge","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Suga declares state of emergency for Tokyo as Covid-19 cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-suga-declares-state-of-emergency-for-tokyo-as-covid-19-cases-surge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has declared a state of emergency for the nation\u2019s capital and surrounding areas as Covid-19 cases surge to the highest levels since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency declaration will be in place from Friday until February 7 and applies to Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa. The emergency includes a number of restrictions on daily life.<\/p>\n<p>Suga has ordered companies to encourage their staff to work from home and reduce office populations by 70%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has declared a state of emergency for the nation\u2019s capital and surrounding areas as Covid-19 cases surge to the highest levels since the start of the pandemic. The emergency declaration will be in place from Friday until February 7 and applies to Tokyo and the three neighboring prefectures of Chiba, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118390","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}