{"id":44449,"date":"2022-05-13T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/north-korean-state-media-confirms-first-covid-death"},"modified":"2022-05-13T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T01:54:04","slug":"north-korea-says-six-dead-after-admitting-covid-outbreak-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44449","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says six dead after admitting Covid outbreak for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime has said it is imposing \u2018maximum emergency measures\u2019 and 187,800 people are being \u2018isolated and treated\u2019 after showing signs of fever<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has announced its first Covid-19 death amid an \u201cexplosive\u201d outbreak of fever, state media said on Friday, one day after the regime admitted for the first time that it was tackling a coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The official KCNA news agency said six people had died, adding that one of them had tested positive for the highly transmissible Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/north-korean-state-media-confirms-first-covid-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime has said it is imposing \u2018maximum emergency measures\u2019 and 187,800 people are being \u2018isolated and treated\u2019 after showing signs of feverNorth Korea has announced its first Covid-19 death amid an \u201cexplosive\u201d outbreak of fever, state media said on Fr&#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":[41,1066,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-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\/44449","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=44449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44470,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44449\/revisions\/44470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}