{"id":14789,"date":"2020-02-21T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/21\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-south-korea-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-diamond-princess-latest-news"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T05:56:03","slug":"coronavirus-china-prison-reports-200-cases-as-virus-spreads-in-south-korea-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14789","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China prison reports 200 cases, as virus spreads in South Korea \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice chief sacked in Shandong province with prison guard reported to be source of outbreak, as South Korea adds 52 new cases. Follow latest news<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-21T05:56:03.187Z\">5.56am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse has conducted interviews with some of the crew members of the Diamond Princess, who were not subject to the same quarantine restrictions on the ship. <\/p>\n<p>They (the crew) were preparing food and delivering meals to cabins, leading some critics to charge they were inadvertently spreading the virus throughout the ship, which has seen more than 600 cases of the potentially deadly COVID-19 disease.<\/p>\n<p>As they have been in close contact with possibly infected passengers, the crew is expected to undergo a 14-day quarantine starting when the last passenger leaves the ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-21T05:41:05.793Z\">5.41am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Hubei province has revised its new cases for Friday<strong> up from 411 to 631<\/strong>, which pushes the day\u2019s total across china above 1,100. New deaths <strong>remain unchanged at 115.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe prison system has increased by a total of 220 cases,\u201d<\/strong> the bulletin from the Hubei health commission says. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/21\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-south-korea-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-diamond-princess-latest-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice chief sacked in Shandong province with prison guard reported to be source of outbreak, as South Korea adds 52 new cases. Follow latest news 5.56am GMT Agence France-Presse has conducted interviews with some of the crew members of the Diamond Pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"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":[41,50,1069,914,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789","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\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14790,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14789\/revisions\/14790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}