{"id":8817,"date":"2021-01-15T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117881\/europe-braces-curfews-lockdowns-region-awaits-covid-19-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-01-15T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T07:06:09","slug":"europe-braces-for-curfews-lockdowns-as-region-awaits-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/europe-braces-for-curfews-lockdowns-as-region-awaits-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe braces for curfews, lockdowns as region awaits Covid-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"Governments in Europe prepared a raft of tougher measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, putting further strain on economies and political leaders as they seek a faster pace of vaccinations.France expanded a daily 12-hour curfew nationwide starting Saturday, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is leading toward a tougher lockdown, amid concern that a more contagious Covid-19 variant may cause infections to spiral out of control.Vaccination is \u201cthe utmost priority\u201d to get out of the crisis,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117881\/europe-braces-curfews-lockdowns-region-awaits-covid-19-vaccines\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments in Europe prepared a raft of tougher measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, putting further strain on economies and political leaders as they seek a faster pace of vaccinations.France expanded a daily 12-hour curfew nationwide starting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"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\/8817"}],"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\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}