{"id":44477,"date":"2022-05-14T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T01:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-declares-covid-outbreak-a-great-disaster"},"modified":"2022-05-14T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T01:12:03","slug":"north-korea-kim-jong-un-declares-covid-outbreak-a-great-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44477","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Kim Jong-un declares Covid outbreak a \u2018great disaster\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang reports 21 more deaths as it scrambles to slow spread of the virus across unvaccinated population<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has declared the country\u2019s first Covid-19 outbreak a \u201cgreat disaster\u201d as it reported 21 more deaths.<\/p>\n<p>State media said 174,440 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Friday alone as the country scrambles to slow the spread of Covid-19 across its unvaccinated population.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-declares-covid-outbreak-a-great-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang reports 21 more deaths as it scrambles to slow spread of the virus across unvaccinated populationNorth Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has declared the country\u2019s first Covid-19 outbreak a \u201cgreat disaster\u201d as it reported 21 more deaths.State medi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,1066,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44477","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44477\/revisions\/44478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}