{"id":44514,"date":"2022-05-15T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/15\/north-korea-in-great-turmoil-over-covid-death-toll-says-kim-jong-un"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T09:00:26","slug":"north-korea-in-great-turmoil-over-covid-death-toll-says-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44514","title":{"rendered":"North Korea \u2018in great turmoil\u2019 over Covid death toll, says Kim Jong-un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regime reports another 21 deaths as fresh outbreaks of coronavirus in South Africa and US concern health officials<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned his country has been thrown into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-declares-covid-outbreak-a-great-disaster\" title=\"\">\u201cgreat turmoil\u201d<\/a> after reporting another 21 deaths, days after the secretive state first admitted it was in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s total death toll now stands at 27, with 524,440 illnesses attributed to a rapid spread of fever consistent with Covid since late April. The regime said 243,630 people had recovered and 280,810 remained in quarantine. However, it did not specify how many of the cases and deaths had been confirmed as Covid-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/15\/north-korea-in-great-turmoil-over-covid-death-toll-says-kim-jong-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regime reports another 21 deaths as fresh outbreaks of coronavirus in South Africa and US concern health officialsNorth Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, has warned his country has been thrown into \u201cgreat turmoil\u201d after reporting another 21 deaths, days aft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3073,"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":[1066,1043,421,40,532,47,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-epidemics","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-africa","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514","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\/3073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions\/44515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}