{"id":164408,"date":"2020-10-13T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/13\/painful-but-effective-uk-can-look-to-israel-for-example-of-short-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:56:47","slug":"painful-but-effective-uk-can-look-to-israel-for-example-of-short-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=164408","title":{"rendered":"Painful but effective? UK can look to Israel for example of short lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel imposed \u2018circuit breaker\u2019-style lockdown at same time UK ministers ignored advice to do just thatDays before UK ministers rejected advice to impose a shortened \u201ccircuit breaker\u201d lockdown in late September, Israel made the opposite decision and enforced the unpopular and painful policy to stem the spiralling number of virus infections.The country of 9 million \u2013 less than 15% of the population of Britain \u2013 was shut down for a second time, with Israeli officials arguing it was essential to halt infections or risk overloading hospitals. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/painful-but-effective-uk-can-look-to-israel-for-example-of-short-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\">Painful but effective? UK can look to Israel for example of short lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel imposed \u2018circuit breaker\u2019-style lockdown at same time UK ministers ignored advice to do just thatDays before UK ministers rejected advice to impose a shortened \u201ccircuit breaker\u201d lockdown in late September, Israel made the opposite decision and enforced the unpopular and painful policy to stem the spiralling number of virus [&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-164408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164408","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=164408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}