{"id":18787,"date":"2020-05-29T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/global-report-philippines-opens-up-despite-record-cases-as-asia-struggles"},"modified":"2020-05-29T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:31:07","slug":"global-report-philippines-opens-up-despite-record-cases-as-outbreaks-hit-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18787","title":{"rendered":"Global report: South Korea postpones school reopening due to new outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country reverses easing plans; Philippines residents to enjoy free movement as daily infections pass 500; Mumbai\u2019s hospital close to collapse<\/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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>has postponed the planned reopening of more than 800 schools as it battles a renewed outbreak of the coronavirus, with cases now at their highest level for almost two months.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s easing of lockdown measures has gone into reverse, with museums, parks and art galleries closed again on Friday for two weeks. Kindergarten pupils, and some primary and secondary school students were due back from Wednesday, in the last phase of school reopenings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/global-report-philippines-opens-up-despite-record-cases-as-asia-struggles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country reverses easing plans; Philippines residents to enjoy free movement as daily infections pass 500; Mumbai\u2019s hospital close to collapseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea&nbsp;has postponed the planned reopenin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,1069,526,914,55,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-france","category-infectious-diseases","category-philippines","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}