{"id":414238,"date":"2020-04-15T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/04\/1061752"},"modified":"2020-04-15T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:00:10","slug":"climate-catastrophes-and-now-coronavirus-pacific-islands-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/04\/15\/climate-catastrophes-and-now-coronavirus-pacific-islands-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate catastrophes and now coronavirus, Pacific islands in the crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc around the globe, the remoteness of the Pacific Islands has left people living there vulnerable in many different ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UN Resident Coordinator Sanaka Samarasinha said in an interview with UN News, that with borders and airports shut down, protection gear, specialist personnel, and life-saving medical supplies have been unable to reach many areas in need.<\/p>\n<p>And the crisis has only been heightened by the devastation inflicted by category 5 Cyclone Harold, which ripped through Vanuatu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/04\/1061752\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc around the globe, the remoteness of the Pacific Islands has left people living there vulnerable in many different ways.\u00a0<br \/>\nUN Resident Coordinator Sanaka Samarasinha said in an interview with UN News, that wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414238"}],"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\/10507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414239,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414238\/revisions\/414239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}