{"id":140841,"date":"2020-04-19T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/19\/swift-action-kept-portugals-coronavirus-crisis-in-check-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:51:11","slug":"swift-action-kept-portugals-coronavirus-crisis-in-check-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=140841","title":{"rendered":"Swift action kept Portugal&#039;s coronavirus crisis in check, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country went into lockdown at earlier stage of epidemic than fellow European statesThe Portuguese government has attributed the country\u2019s low coronavirus caseload to a swift, flexible \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d response and to the early closure of schools and universities on 16 March.Despite the fact that around 22% of Portugal\u2019s 10.3 million people are aged 65 or over, making them particularly vulnerable to the virus, the country has so far registered just over 20,000 cases and 714 deaths \u2013 far fewer than its neighbours. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/19\/swift-action-kept-portugals-coronavirus-crisis-in-check-says-minister\" target=\"_blank\">Swift action kept Portugal&#039;s coronavirus crisis in check, says minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country went into lockdown at earlier stage of epidemic than fellow European statesThe Portuguese government has attributed the country\u2019s low coronavirus caseload to a swift, flexible \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d response and to the early closure of schools and universities on 16 March.Despite the fact that around 22% of Portugal\u2019s 10.3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}