{"id":39588,"date":"2021-12-08T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/south-korea-hospitals-under-pressure-as-record-7175-covid-cases-in-a-day"},"modified":"2021-12-08T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:57:59","slug":"south-korea-hospitals-under-intense-pressure-amid-record-7175-covid-cases-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39588","title":{"rendered":"South Korea hospitals under intense pressure amid record 7,175 Covid cases in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in infections attributed to young people who have yet to be fully vaccinated and older citizens who have not received boosters<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> has reported a record daily total of 7,175 new Covid cases as officials urged people to complete their vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Kim Boo-kyum, warned that hospitals were coming under intense pressure amid a rise in serious cases, days after the government announced a return to stricter restrictions on social gatherings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/08\/south-korea-hospitals-under-pressure-as-record-7175-covid-cases-in-a-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in infections attributed to young people who have yet to be fully vaccinated and older citizens who have not received boostersCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea has reported a record daily total of 7,175 new Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,914,299,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/39588","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39588\/revisions\/39589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}