{"id":35941,"date":"2021-06-03T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35941"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:52:37","slug":"us-tells-americans-in-afghanistan-to-get-out-due-to-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35941","title":{"rendered":"US tells Americans in Afghanistan to get out due to COVID-19 surge\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. called on Americans to evacuate Afghanistan \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as the country faces a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtbsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccpdtqy_gykcrrgygdctyylrltnk.html?a=&amp;b=39599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mtbsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccpdtqy_gykcrrgygdctyylrltnk.html?a%3D%26b%3D39599&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622844310068000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGrOlM1eaMviAxfO-0IWkGOUJVHmg\">health alert<\/a>\u00a0Thursday to U.S. citizens in Afghanistan, warning of the COVID-19 surge and overwhelmed hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, the embassy said hospitals in the country are experiencing shortages of supplies, oxygen and beds for all patients. U.S. citizens seeking hospital care have reportedly been denied admittance.<\/p>\n<p>The alert encourages Americans to make plans to leave without U.S. government assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the security conditions and reduced staffing, the Embassy\u2019s ability to assist U.S. citizens in Afghanistan is extremely limited,\u201d the alert reads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers:\u00a0<\/strong>Afghanistan is enduring a rapid uptick in COVID-19 cases and deaths since mid-May, reaching a pandemic-high for the seven-day average of 897 cases on Wednesday, according to Our World in Data.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country has documented a seven-day average of almost 22 fatalities a day, approaching the record 25 deaths seven-day average in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, about 1.24 percent of people in Afghanistan have received at least one dose, and 0.37 percent are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. called on Americans to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35942,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35941\/revisions\/35942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}