{"id":15470,"date":"2020-03-06T15:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-quarantine-plans-ignite-row-between-south-korea-and-japan"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:15:58","slug":"coronavirus-quarantine-plans-ignite-row-between-south-korea-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15470","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus quarantine plans ignite row between South Korea and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul lashes neighbour\u2019s \u2018passive\u2019 approach to containing the virus and implies Tokyo is more concerned with ensuring Olympics go ahead <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/fake-fake-senior-chinese-leader-heckled-by-residents-on-visit-to-coronavirus-epicentre\">\u2018Fake, fake\u2019: Chinese leader heckled on visit to Wuhan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-update-latest-live-news-symptoms-cases-global-infection-rate-uk-usa-australia-italy-china-updates\">Latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coronavirus outbreak has ignited a diplomatic row between Japan and South Korea, after Tokyo said it would quarantine all passengers arriving from the country, which has the highest number of Covid-19 cases outside China.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the government in Seoul on Friday called the move \u201cunreasonable, excessive and extremely regrettable\u201d, threatening retaliatory measures and accusing Japan of not dealing with its own outbreak properly. <\/p>\n<p>From Saturday, anyone arriving in Japan from South Korea will be placed in two weeks\u2019 quarantine at government-designated sites, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe said on Thursday, amid criticism of his handling of the outbreak just months before the country is due to host the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives\">&#8216;More scary than coronavirus&#8217;: South Korea&#8217;s health alerts expose private lives<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/06\/coronavirus-quarantine-plans-ignite-row-between-south-korea-and-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul lashes neighbour\u2019s \u2018passive\u2019 approach to containing the virus and implies Tokyo is more concerned with ensuring Olympics go ahead \u2018Fake, fake\u2019: Chinese leader heckled on visit to WuhanLatest updatesThe coronavirus outbreak has ignited a diplomati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"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":[1069,88,222,554,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470","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\/1088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15471,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions\/15471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}