{"id":33871,"date":"2021-07-09T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/south-korea-raises-covid-restrictions-to-highest-level-in-seoul-amid-maximum-crisis"},"modified":"2021-07-09T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:25:03","slug":"south-korea-raises-covid-restrictions-to-highest-level-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33871","title":{"rendered":"South Korea raises Covid restrictions to highest level in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously held up as a model of how to combat pandemic, country was slow to start vaccine rollout and is now reporting record daily cases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level yet in the Seoul metropolitan area, prime minister Kim Boo-kyum said on Friday, warning that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/south-korea-records-highest-covid-case-numbers-as-wave-of-infections-sweeps-asia-pacific\">record rise in new cases<\/a> had reached \u201cmaximum crisis level\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The country had previously been held up as a model of how to combat the pandemic, with the public largely following social distancing and other rules, but it was slow to start its vaccine rollout due to supply shortages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/south-korea-raises-covid-restrictions-to-highest-level-in-seoul-amid-maximum-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously held up as a model of how to combat pandemic, country was slow to start vaccine rollout and is now reporting record daily casesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea will raise coronavirus curbs to their highest level yet in the Seoul m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,1066,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/33871","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33872,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions\/33872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}