{"id":45085,"date":"2022-06-02T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/north-koreas-covid-outbreak-likely-getting-worse-who-says"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:16:48","slug":"north-koreas-covid-outbreak-likely-getting-worse-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45085","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Covid outbreak likely \u2018getting worse\u2019, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts doubt state media claims that the worst is over, as WHO warns of global dangers of letting the virus spread unchecked<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea\u2019s claims of progress in the fight against a Covid-19 outbreak, saying it believes the situation is getting worse, not better, amid an absence of independent data.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean state media has claimed the Covid wave has abated, after daily numbers of people with fever topped 390,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/north-korea-on-brink-of-covid-19-catastrophe-say-experts\">about two weeks ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/north-koreas-covid-outbreak-likely-getting-worse-who-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts doubt state media claims that the worst is over, as WHO warns of global dangers of letting the virus spread uncheckedSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization has cast doubts on North Korea\u2019s claims of progress in the fight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[41,1066,40,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-north-korea","category-world-health-organization","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\/45085","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085\/revisions\/45086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}