{"id":14846,"date":"2020-02-22T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T04:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/22\/coronavirus-south-korea-sees-huge-jump-cases-china-hubei-wuhan-outbreak-"},"modified":"2020-02-22T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:26:47","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-south-korea-church-cluster-drives-huge-jump-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14846","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: South Korea cluster drives huge rise in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients and staff at a hospital near Daegu account for bulk of 229 new cases as links to controversial \u2018sect\u2019 are investigated<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has reported another huge jump in cases of coronavirus as the country fights to contain the spread of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>The number of infections has increased by 229 to 433, officials said on Saturday, with most of the cases linked to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/20\/south-korean-city-daegu-lockdown-coronavirus-outbreak-cases-soar-at-church-cult-cluster\"> the city of Daegu and surrounding region two hours south of Seoul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/22\/coronavirus-south-korea-sees-huge-jump-cases-china-hubei-wuhan-outbreak-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients and staff at a hospital near Daegu account for bulk of 229 new cases as links to controversial \u2018sect\u2019 are investigatedSouth Korea has reported another huge jump in cases of coronavirus as the country fights to contain the spread of the deadly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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":[41,50,1069,299,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-science","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\/14846","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}