{"id":18082,"date":"2020-05-11T18:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/south-korea-struggles-to-contain-new-outbreak-amid-anti-lgbt-backlash"},"modified":"2020-05-11T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:06:41","slug":"south-korea-struggles-to-contain-new-outbreak-amid-anti-gay-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18082","title":{"rendered":"South Korea struggles to contain new outbreak amid anti-gay backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears people will fail to get tested out of fear after new cases linked to Seoul gay district <\/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>Authorities in South Korea are struggling to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to the capital\u2019s nightclub district as a backlash against the country\u2019s gay community increases, prompting fears LGBT people will fail to get tested out of fear of being outed.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea had been praised for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/test-trace-contain-how-south-korea-flattened-its-coronavirus-curve\">innovative <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/test-trace-contain-how-south-korea-flattened-its-coronavirus-curve\">efforts<\/a> to contain the pandemic, going from the second most infected region outside China to having just a handful of cases before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/10\/it-isnt-over-south-korea-records-34-new-cases-the-highest-in-a-month\">latest outbreak<\/a> a week ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/south-korea-struggles-to-contain-new-outbreak-amid-anti-lgbt-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears people will fail to get tested out of fear after new cases linked to Seoul gay district Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in South Korea are struggling to contain a new coronavirus outbreak linked to the capi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1056,"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":[41,1069,914,72,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-lgbt-rights","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\/18082","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\/1056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18095,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}