{"id":14879,"date":"2020-02-23T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/coronavirus-south-korea-reports-123-new-cases-and-two-more-deaths"},"modified":"2020-02-23T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T07:54:19","slug":"coronavirus-south-korea-reports-123-new-cases-and-two-more-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14879","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: South Korea placed on &#8216;red alert&#8217; as fifth person dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 9,000 Shincheonji church members in self-quarantine as president describes coming days as \u2018very important moment\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/23\/coronavirus-outbreak-woman-tests-positive-after-disembarking-diamond-princess-live-news\">Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president Moon Jae-in has placed the country on \u201cred alert\u201d after it reported its fifth death and more than 123 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of infected to 556.<\/p>\n<p>As the nation struggled on Sunday to contain the deadly Covid-19 outbreak in the city of Daegu, the president described the coming days as \u201ca very important moment\u201d, the news agency Yonhap said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/coronavirus-south-korea-reports-123-new-cases-and-two-more-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 9,000 Shincheonji church members in self-quarantine as president describes coming days as \u2018very important moment\u2019Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 live updatesSouth Korea\u2019s president Moon Jae-in has placed the country on \u201cred alert\u201d after it reported it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,1069,914,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","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\/14879","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14891,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}