{"id":12143,"date":"2024-12-23T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2024-12-23T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:15:25","slug":"official-death-toll-stands-at-12-in-vanuatu-with-80000-affected-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12143","title":{"rendered":"Official death toll stands at 12 in Vanuatu with 80,000 affected people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of official deaths from Vanuatu&#8217;s 7.3 magnitude quake now stands at 12.<\/p>\n<p>This has been confirmed by the Vila Central Hospital, according to the latest situation report from the Vanuatu Disaster Management office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier unofficial reports had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/saturday\/audio\/2018969442\/aftermath-of-vanuatu-earthquake\">placed the death toll at 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital says 80,000 people have been impacted by the disaster with the response effort hampered by damages to core infrastructure including the country&#8217;s telecommunications network.<\/p>\n<p>Over 210 people have been injured so far with eight people rescued by joint police operations.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of officers from bi-lateral and multi-lateral partners, UN agencies and non-government organisations are supporting local authorities working around the clock to reach those most affected.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency for the worst hit areas remains in effect with a nightly curfew.<\/p>\n<p>Officers in the joint police operations are forcibly relocating people deemed to be living in high-risk areas or damaged and dangerous buildings.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of official deaths from Vanuatu&#8217;s 7.3 magnitude quake now stands at 12. This has been confirmed by the Vila Central Hospital, according to the latest situation report from the Vanuatu Disaster Management office. Earlier unofficial reports had\u00a0placed the death toll at 16. The hospital says 80,000 people have been impacted by the disaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}