{"id":144307,"date":"2022-01-21T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=144307&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:26:03","slug":"pcr-kit-shortage-leads-to-canceled-classes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/pcr-kit-shortage-leads-to-canceled-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"PCR Kit\u00a0Shortage Leads To Canceled Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delayed PCR screening operations are causing extended school closures in Kitakyushu City. The city\u2019s education committee has expanded its PCR handling capacity but still had no choice but to instigate class closure days. Under current rules, school classes will be canceled until all students test negative. As of Jan. 20, class closures were reported at 36 local elementary and junior high schools in the region. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220120\/5010014557.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144294\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fnn_empty-school_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fnn_empty-school_2022_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fnn_empty-school_2022_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fnn_empty-school_2022_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fnn_empty-school_2022_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakutaso.com\/photo\/37876.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakutaso<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The city\u2019s education committee has expanded its PCR handling capacity but still had no choice but to instigate class closure days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":144294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-144307","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-kitakyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/144307","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}