{"id":26027,"date":"2020-12-25T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/25\/coronavirus-global-report-christmas-events-scaled-back-as-south-korea-reports-record-cases"},"modified":"2020-12-25T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T04:52:55","slug":"coronavirus-global-report-christmas-events-scaled-back-south-korea-reports-record-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26027","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus global report: Christmas curtailed as UK arrivals face tougher measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope addresses fewer than 200 people in St Peter\u2019s; China and US take action against UK amid concerns about new variant; South Korea reports daily case record <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/staff-at-uk-coronavirus-testing-lab-hit-by-outbreak-of-the-disease\">Staff at UK coronavirus testing lab hit by outbreak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/uk-coronavirus-death-toll-increases-by-574\">Johnson refuses to rule out national lockdown as UK death toll rises by 574<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/24\/donald-trump-covid-relief-bill-republicans-democrats-biden\">Trump claims to be \u2018working tirelessly\u2019 but leaves Covid relief in disarray<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic cast a pall over Christmas celebrations worldwide, with the pope holding a reduced St Peter\u2019s mass, and further restrictions imposed on arrivals from the UK and South Africa amid concerns about potentially more transmissible variants of the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China<\/strong> said it would halt UK flight arrivals indefinitely, deciding to follow the example of dozens of countries that introduced bans this week following the emergence of a new mutation in the virus. There are currently eight weekly flights between mainland China and Britain, including two by British Airways.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/25\/coronavirus-global-report-christmas-events-scaled-back-as-south-korea-reports-record-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope addresses fewer than 200 people in St Peter\u2019s; China and US take action against UK amid concerns about new variant; South Korea reports daily case record Staff at UK coronavirus testing lab hit by outbreakJohnson refuses to rule out national lockd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"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":[41,368,50,370,1066,48,451,754,222,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-china","category-christianity","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-italy","category-pope-francis","category-south-korea","category-uk-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\/26027","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\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26027\/revisions\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}