{"id":10317,"date":"2021-01-19T12:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3118374\/coronavirus-party-haven-dubai-struggles-contain-biggest"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T12:36:55","slug":"coronavirus-party-haven-dubai-struggles-to-contain-biggest-infection-surge-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/coronavirus-party-haven-dubai-struggles-to-contain-biggest-infection-surge-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: party haven Dubai struggles to contain biggest infection surge yet"},"content":{"rendered":"Masks off the minute you step inside. Bars packed and pulsing like it\u2019s 2019. Social media stars waving bottles of champagne. DJs spinning party tunes through multi-hour brunches.Since becoming one of the world\u2019s first destinations to open up for tourism, Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, has promoted itself as the ideal pandemic holiday spot. It cannot afford otherwise, analysts say, as the virus shakes the foundations of the city state\u2019s economy.With its cavernous malls, frenetic\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3118374\/coronavirus-party-haven-dubai-struggles-contain-biggest\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masks off the minute you step inside. Bars packed and pulsing like it\u2019s 2019. Social media stars waving bottles of champagne. DJs spinning party tunes through multi-hour brunches.Since becoming one of the world\u2019s first destinations to open up for touri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}