{"id":18020,"date":"2020-05-10T02:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/09\/global-report-coronavirus-russia-becomes-new-hotspot-as-south-korea-shuts-bars"},"modified":"2020-05-10T02:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T17:20:21","slug":"global-report-russia-becomes-new-hotspot-as-south-korea-shuts-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18020","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Russia becomes new hotspot as South Korea shuts bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus defies coronavirus concerns with VE Day parade, mayor of Milan issues warning, while football returns &#8230; in the Faroe Islands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest 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>As coronavirus infections approached 4 million worldwide, and <strong>Russia<\/strong> became a new hotspot for the outbreak, <strong>Belarus<\/strong> defied worries to hold a parade marking the 75th anniversary of victory over the Nazis, with thousands of people in attendance including elderly veterans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Korea<\/strong>, which is trying to relax physical distancing regulations, on Saturday shut down more than 2,100 clubs and bars in the capital after a new cluster of cases emerged, apparently linked to a single individual who had gone out while infected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/09\/global-report-coronavirus-russia-becomes-new-hotspot-as-south-korea-shuts-bars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus defies coronavirus concerns with VE Day parade, mayor of Milan issues warning, while football returns &#8230; in the Faroe IslandsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs coronavirus infections approached 4 million worldwide, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1296,"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":[1391,1069,419,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belarus","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-russia","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\/18020","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\/1296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18020\/revisions\/18021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}