{"id":39584,"date":"2021-12-08T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/08\/covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found"},"modified":"2021-12-08T19:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:30:31","slug":"covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39584","title":{"rendered":"Covid live: over-40s in England now eligible for booster after three months; South Korea surge sparks alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of over-40s in England <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/08\/covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with:block-61b0470b8f08cfef2cf615c4#block-61b0470b8f08cfef2cf615c4\">can book a top-up jab from today<\/a>; South Korea PM Kim Boo-kyum says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/08\/covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with:block-61b00bf38f08cfef2cf61348#block-61b00bf38f08cfef2cf61348\">hospital capacity under strain<\/a> as cases rise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/uk-races-to-deliver-booster-jabs-before-omicron-takes-hold\">UK races to deliver booster jabs before Omicron takes hold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/dec\/06\/moderna-or-novavax-after-astrazeneca-jab-confers-high-covid-immunity-study-finds\">Moderna or Novavax after AstraZeneca jab confers high immunity: study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/as-many-as-6-million-eligible-britons-may-not-have-had-a-covid-jab-who-are-they\">Up to 6m eligible Britons may not have had a jab. Who are they?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/more-cautious-china-shifts-africa-approach-from-debt-to-vaccine-diplomacy\">China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19<\/strong> and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths. <\/p>\n<p><strong>South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated <\/strong>as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/dec\/08\/covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of over-40s in England can book a top-up jab from today; South Korea PM Kim Boo-kyum says hospital capacity under strain as cases riseUK races to deliver booster jabs before Omicron takes holdModerna or Novavax after AstraZeneca jab confers hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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":[1066,221,914,299,222,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-south-korea","category-uk-news","category-us-news","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\/39584","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39584\/revisions\/39601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}