{"id":14747,"date":"2020-02-20T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/south-korean-city-daegu-lockdown-coronavirus-outbreak-cases-soar-at-church-cult-cluster"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:41:27","slug":"south-korean-city-on-high-alert-as-coronavirus-cases-soar-at-cult-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14747","title":{"rendered":"South Korean city on high alert as coronavirus cases soar at &#8216;cult&#8217; church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 61-year-old woman is believed to have infected dozens of worshippers at the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, taking the national total to 82<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/20\/coronavirus-live-updates-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-japan-deaths-latest-news-china-infections\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest news<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The South Korean city of Daegu was facing an \u201cunprecedented crisis\u201d after coronavirus infections that centred on a controversial \u201ccult\u201d church surged to 38 cases, accounting for nearly half of the country\u2019s total.<\/p>\n<p>The city of 2.5 million people, which is two hours south of the capital Seoul, was turned into a ghost town after health officials said the bulk of country\u2019s 31 new cases announced on Thursday were linked to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/south-korean-city-daegu-lockdown-coronavirus-outbreak-cases-soar-at-church-cult-cluster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 61-year-old woman is believed to have infected dozens of worshippers at the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, taking the national total to 82Coronavirus \u2013 latest news The South Korean city of Daegu was facing an \u201cunprecedented crisis\u201d after coron&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14748,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions\/14748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}