{"id":140131,"date":"2021-04-19T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140131&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-04-19T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:18:05","slug":"fukuoka-prefecture-to-increase-number-of-covid-beds-to-1220","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-prefecture-to-increase-number-of-covid-beds-to-1220\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Prefecture To Increase Number of COVID Beds to 1220"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture is preparing to resume requests for shorter hours at eateries in Fukuoka City, reflecting on the emergence of a fourth wave of the new coronavirus infection. During the past five days, the prefecture reported over 100 daily infections. An increasing percentage of new strains of the COVID-19 virus has been recorded. As a step before requesting the implementation of stricter anti-coronavirus measures to the national government, the prefecture will ask some eateries to close by 21:00 for about one month. The policy will be finalized after a task-force meeting on April 19. Meanwhile, the prefecture is expanding the number of hospital beds for COVID-19 treatments from the current 802 to 1,220. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210418\/5010011553.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20210418\/5010011554.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/news\/article.php?id=6851642&amp;ymd=2021-04-16\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KB<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140132\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kego-park.jpeg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Fukuoka Prefecture is preparing to resume requests for shorter hours at eateries in Fukuoka City, reflecting on the emergence of a fourth wave of the new coronavirus infection. During the past five days, the prefecture reported over 100 daily infections. An increasing percentage of new strains of the COVID-19 virus has been recorded. As a step before requesting the implementation of stricter anti-coronavirus measures to the national government,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":140132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-140131","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\/140131","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=140131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}