{"id":14966,"date":"2020-02-25T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/coronavirus-south-korea-to-test-200000-sect-members-as-pandemic-fears-hit-markets"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:08:16","slug":"coronavirus-south-korea-to-test-200000-sect-members-as-pandemic-fears-hit-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14966","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: South Korea to test 200,000 sect members as pandemic fears hit markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nation brings in \u2018maximum measures\u2019 to contain outbreak at secretive church <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/25\/coronavirus-live-updates-outbreak-latest-news-italy-italia-deaths-symptoms-china-stocks-wall-street-dow-jones-economy-falls\">Covid-19 coverage: live updates<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea has stepped up its \u201cmaximum measures\u201d to contain the coronavirus with plans to test around 200,000 members of a secretive church believed to be at the centre of the country\u2019s outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Along with an emergency budget and a crackdown on the hoarding of face masks, the government in Seoul will test members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus after its founder agreed to provide authorities with the names of all its members in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/coronavirus-south-korea-to-test-200000-sect-members-as-pandemic-fears-hit-markets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation brings in \u2018maximum measures\u2019 to contain outbreak at secretive church Covid-19 coverage: live updates South Korea has stepped up its \u201cmaximum measures\u201d to contain the coronavirus with plans to test around 200,000 members of a secretive church bel&#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":[41,1069,59,914,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","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\/14966","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=14966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions\/14967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}