{"id":14865,"date":"2020-02-23T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/22\/south-korea-tests-coronavirus-thousands-religious-sect-members"},"modified":"2020-02-23T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:05:17","slug":"south-korea-tests-thousands-of-religious-sect-members-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14865","title":{"rendered":"South Korea tests thousands of religious sect members for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country confirms more than 430 cases as WHO head voices concern over fifth death in Iran<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/22\/coronavirus-live-updates-who-worried-cases-no-link-china-infections-death-toll-latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousands of members of a secretive religious sect in South Korea are being tested for the new coronavirus after more than 430 cases were confirmed in the country by officials, one of several fresh clusters of the disease globally.<\/p>\n<p>More than 78,000 people around the world have been infected by the Covid-19 virus, with most cases in mainland China, though clusters that have unclear origins have emerged in Singapore, Iran and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/22\/south-korea-tests-coronavirus-thousands-religious-sect-members\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country confirms more than 430 cases as WHO head voices concern over fifth death in IranCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesThousands of members of a secretive religious sect in South Korea are being tested for the new coronavirus after more than 430 cases wer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"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":[41,50,1069,221,346,914,448,451,212,222,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-italy","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-korea","category-world-health-organization","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\/14865","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\/1022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14872,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}