{"id":24081,"date":"2020-10-22T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/doctors-in-south-korea-call-for-flu-vaccinations-to-be-paused-after-25-deaths"},"modified":"2020-10-22T20:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:29:49","slug":"doctors-in-south-korea-call-for-flu-vaccinations-to-be-paused-after-25-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24081","title":{"rendered":"Doctors in South Korea call for flu vaccinations to be paused after 25 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say programme will continue after finding no direct links between the deaths and the vaccines<\/p>\n<p>South Korean officials refused on Thursday to suspend a seasonal influenza inoculation effort, despite growing calls for a halt, including an appeal from a key group of doctors, after the deaths of at least 25 of those vaccinated. Health authorities said they found no direct links between the deaths and the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>At least 22 of the dead, including a 17-year-old boy, were part of a campaign to inoculate 19 million teenagers and senior citizens for free, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/22\/doctors-in-south-korea-call-for-flu-vaccinations-to-be-paused-after-25-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say programme will continue after finding no direct links between the deaths and the vaccinesSouth Korean officials refused on Thursday to suspend a seasonal influenza inoculation effort, despite growing calls for a halt, including an appea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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":[41,1066,1720,346,79,222,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-flu","category-health","category-society","category-south-korea","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/24081","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions\/24082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}