{"id":42534,"date":"2022-03-17T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/south-korea-reports-record-covid-deaths-as-daily-cases-surge-past-600000"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:16:17","slug":"south-korea-reports-record-covid-deaths-as-daily-cases-surge-past-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42534","title":{"rendered":"South Korea reports record Covid deaths as daily cases surge past 600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite record infections and fatalities, public opinion appears to support plans to ease Covid curbs in the coming days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Read all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea reported record daily Covid infections and record deaths caused by the virus, as the country which once took an aggressive anti-pandemic approach is set to end Covid restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, authorities said 621,328 new daily cases of the virus were recorded, and 429 deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/17\/south-korea-reports-record-covid-deaths-as-daily-cases-surge-past-600000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite record infections and fatalities, public opinion appears to support plans to ease Covid curbs in the coming daysRead all our coronavirus coverageSouth Korea reported record daily Covid infections and record deaths caused by the virus, as the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-42534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42534","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42535,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42534\/revisions\/42535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}