{"id":44580,"date":"2022-05-17T21:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/north-korea-on-brink-of-covid-19-catastrophe-say-experts"},"modified":"2022-05-17T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T12:35:33","slug":"north-korea-on-brink-of-covid-19-catastrophe-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44580","title":{"rendered":"North Korea on brink of Covid-19 catastrophe, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number to have fallen ill reportedly at almost 1.5 million as country grapples with what it calls \u2018fever\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> stands on the brink of a Covid-19 catastrophe unless swift action is taken to provide vaccines and drug treatments, experts have said, as the number of people reported to have fallen ill rose to almost 1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The isolated country reported another big rise in new cases of what it continues to refer to as \u201cfever\u201d on Tuesday, days after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/north-korean-state-media-confirms-first-covid-death\">admitted it had identified Covid-19 infections<\/a> for the first time since the start of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/north-korea-on-brink-of-covid-19-catastrophe-say-experts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number to have fallen ill reportedly at almost 1.5 million as country grapples with what it calls \u2018fever\u2019North Korea stands on the brink of a Covid-19 catastrophe unless swift action is taken to provide vaccines and drug treatments, experts have said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,1066,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/44580","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44580\/revisions\/44581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}