{"id":17401,"date":"2020-04-21T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/maryland-coronavirus-tests-south-korea-trump"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:40:34","slug":"maryland-obtains-500000-coronavirus-tests-from-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17401","title":{"rendered":"Maryland obtains 500,000 coronavirus tests from South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move raises questions about governor\u2019s need to circumvent the federal government to obtain critical supplies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/us-politics-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest US updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">C<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">oronavirus \u2013 latest global updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maryland has obtained 500,000 tests from South Korea following weeks of negotiations, Larry Hogan, the state\u2019s Republican governor, said on Monday, in an announcement that raised questions about governors circumventing the federal government to obtain medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan confirmed on Monday that the state has obtained the tests from LabGenomics. Speaking in Annapolis alongside Yumi Hogan, Maryland\u2019s first lady, the governor said a Korean Air passenger plane arrived at BWI airport on Saturday carrying the tests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/maryland-coronavirus-tests-south-korea-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move raises questions about governor\u2019s need to circumvent the federal government to obtain critical suppliesCoronavirus \u2013 latest US updatesCoronavirus \u2013 latest global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMaryland has obtained 500,000 tests from South&#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":[1069,415,914,222,554,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-infectious-diseases","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\/17401","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=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17402,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions\/17402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}