{"id":41923,"date":"2022-02-23T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T06:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/23\/south-korea-pm-urges-calm-after-covid-cases-soar-by-70000-in-a-day"},"modified":"2022-02-23T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T06:49:25","slug":"south-korea-pm-urges-calm-after-covid-cases-soar-by-70000-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41923","title":{"rendered":"South Korea PM urges calm after Covid cases soar by 70,000 in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Boo-kyum says pandemic is at a \u2018manageable level\u2019 and sharp rise in cases should not be as feared as it once was<\/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\u2019s prime minister has called for calm after a record number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> cases, amid warnings that the latest surge had yet to peak.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Boo-kyum said serious cases and deaths were still at \u201cmanageable levels\u201d, after health authorities reported 171,452 new infections on Wednesday, a sharp increase from the 99,573 cases a day earlier and the previous all-time high of 109,831.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/23\/south-korea-pm-urges-calm-after-covid-cases-soar-by-70000-in-a-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Boo-kyum says pandemic is at a \u2018manageable level\u2019 and sharp rise in cases should not be as feared as it once wasSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea\u2019s prime minister has called for calm after a record number of Covid-19 cases, amid warnings &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41923","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41924,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41923\/revisions\/41924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}