{"id":39223,"date":"2021-11-25T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/south-korea-cult-whose-leader-heals-by-poking-eyes-at-centre-of-covid-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-11-25T00:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:20:52","slug":"south-korea-cult-whose-leader-heals-by-poking-eyes-at-centre-of-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39223","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: cult whose leader \u2018heals\u2019 by poking eyes at centre of Covid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 241 people linked to religious community test positive for virus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a Covid outbreak in South Korea, as the country reported a new daily record of 4,116 cases and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/south-korea-covid-cases-hit-daily-record-as-pressure-on-hospitals-rises\">battles a rise in serious cases straining hospitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a tiny, rural church in a town of 427 residents in Cheonan city, south of Seoul, at least 241 people linked to the religious community tested positive for coronavirus, a city official told Reuters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/south-korea-cult-whose-leader-heals-by-poking-eyes-at-centre-of-covid-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 241 people linked to religious community test positive for virusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA little known sect led by a pastor who pokes eyes to heal is at the centre of a Covid outbreak in South Korea, as the &#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":[41,1066,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-science","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\/39223","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=39223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39223\/revisions\/39224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}