{"id":26066,"date":"2020-12-26T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/26\/global-report-south-korea-at-covid-crossroads-as-global-concern-mounts-over-variants"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T07:09:35","slug":"global-report-south-korea-at-covid-crossroads-as-global-concern-mounts-over-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26066","title":{"rendered":"Global report: South Korea at Covid &#8216;crossroads&#8217; as global concern mounts over variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway extends UK travel ban; Japan refuses arrivals from South Africa; Turkey requires all arrivals to provide proof of negative test <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/25\/japan-reports-cases-coronavirus-variant-spreading-across-uk\">Japan and France report cases of coronavirus variant found in UK<\/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>South Korea <\/strong>has posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases, as outbreaks at a prison, nursing homes and churches continued to grow, prompting the health minister to say the country was at a \u201ccrossroads of the third wave\u201d. It comes as more countries restricted entry from the UK and South Africa amid fears about new Covid variants.<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said there were 1,132 new coronavirus cases on Friday, not too far off the record of 1,241 logged on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/26\/global-report-south-korea-at-covid-crossroads-as-global-concern-mounts-over-variants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway extends UK travel ban; Japan refuses arrivals from South Africa; Turkey requires all arrivals to provide proof of negative test Japan and France report cases of coronavirus variant found in UKSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has poste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"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":[1066,526,88,1165,222,1017,52,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-france","category-japan","category-norway","category-south-korea","category-turkey","category-uk-news","category-us-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\/26066","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\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26068,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26066\/revisions\/26068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}