{"id":133223,"date":"2020-06-30T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T23:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=133223&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-06-30T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T23:37:29","slug":"kitakyushu-clears-second-wave-eight-new-covid-19-cases-in-eight-days-for-fukuoka-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kitakyushu-clears-second-wave-eight-new-covid-19-cases-in-eight-days-for-fukuoka-prefecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitakyushu Clears Second Wave\u00a0&#8211; Eight New COVID-19 Cases in Eight Days for Fukuoka Prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the period between June 22 ~ 29, Fukuoka Prefecture announced eight new cases of the new coronavirus infection. Within the eight days, no new cases were found on 6\/22, 26, and 28. The cumulative total of infections for the prefecture is now 846. The mayor of Kitakyushu City Kenji Kitahashi held a press conference on June 29 to announce that the city\u2019s second wave of the virus infection has subdued. The city will now prepare to take steps to resume economic activities. Sources: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/covid19-hassei.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20200629\/5010008437.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-133224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-30-COVID-news.png?resize=1024%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-30-COVID-news.png?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-30-COVID-news.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-30-COVID-news.png?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-30-COVID-news.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The mayor of Kitakyushu City Kenji Kitahashi held a press conference on June 29 to announce that the city\u2019s second wave of the virus infection has subdued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":133224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-133223","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/133223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}