{"id":21809,"date":"2020-08-18T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/south-korea-warns-it-is-on-brink-of-new-covid-crisis-as-church-linked-to-outbreak-seoul"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:11:18","slug":"south-korea-warns-it-is-on-brink-of-new-covid-crisis-as-church-linked-to-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21809","title":{"rendered":"South Korea warns it is on brink of new Covid crisis as church linked to outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 infections traced to Seoul church, whose leader has tested positive<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has warned that it is on the brink of a new coronavirus crisis and could introduce stricter controls after a resurgence in cases, including hundreds linked to a church in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported 246 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, raising its total to 15,761, including 305 deaths, according to the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention [KCDC].<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/18\/south-korea-warns-it-is-on-brink-of-new-covid-crisis-as-church-linked-to-outbreak-seoul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 400 infections traced to Seoul church, whose leader has tested positiveCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has warned that it is on the brink of a new coronavirus crisis and could introduce stricter control&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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":[1069,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/21809","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21809\/revisions\/21811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}