{"id":15346,"date":"2020-03-03T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/03\/coronavirus-south-korea-declares-war-on-outbreak-as-who-experts-arrive-in-iran"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:28:10","slug":"coronavirus-south-korea-declares-war-on-outbreak-as-who-experts-arrive-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15346","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: South Korea declares &#8216;war&#8217; on outbreak as WHO experts arrive in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 5,000 cases of Covid-19 recorded in South Korea as WHO chief says the world is in \u2018uncharted territory\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/03\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-latest-news-us-australia-deaths-markets-italy-iran-update-cases-italy-south-korea-japan\">Latest developments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Tell us: have you been affected by the coronavirus?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea has declared \u201cwar\u201d on the coronavirus as cases inside the country<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/03\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-latest-news-us-australia-deaths-markets-italy-iran-update-cases-italy-south-korea-japan\"> approach 5,000<\/a> and the World Health Organization chief warns the world is in \u201cuncharted territory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has the most cases of Covid-19 after China and reported 600 new infections on Tuesday, bringing the total number to 4,812. About 75% of the cases are in the south-eastern city of Daegu. The country also recorded a total of 28 deaths, pushing global fatalities over<strong> <\/strong>3,100. Worldwide infections topped 90,000 in more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/03\/coronavirus-south-korea-declares-war-on-outbreak-as-who-experts-arrive-in-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 5,000 cases of Covid-19 recorded in South Korea as WHO chief says the world is in \u2018uncharted territory\u2019Latest developmentsTell us: have you been affected by the coronavirus?South Korea has declared \u201cwar\u201d on the coronavirus as cases inside the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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":[50,1069,59,914,448,512,916,299,222,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","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\/15346","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15362,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15346\/revisions\/15362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}