{"id":24850,"date":"2020-11-17T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/south-korea-facing-crisis-says-pm-as-covid-measures-tightened"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:57:41","slug":"south-korea-facing-crisis-says-pm-as-covid-measures-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24850","title":{"rendered":"South Korea facing &#8216;crisis&#8217;, says PM, as Covid measures tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chanting and singing at concerts banned amid daily case rises and fears for the looming winter flu season<\/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 strengthened social distancing measures amid a rise in new coronavirus cases, with the country\u2019s prime minister warning that action was needed to avoid a crisis with the arrival of the winter flu season.<\/p>\n<p>The country has won widespread praise for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/23\/test-trace-contain-how-south-korea-flattened-its-coronavirus-curve\">preventing a serious Covid-19 outbreak<\/a> through a combination of mass testing, vigorous track and tracing and isolation, coupled with social distancing and mask wearing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/south-korea-facing-crisis-says-pm-as-covid-measures-tightened\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chanting and singing at concerts banned amid daily case rises and fears for the looming winter flu seasonCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has strengthened social distancing measures amid a rise in new coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,914,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions\/24851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}