{"id":22355,"date":"2020-02-25T09:17:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22355"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:17:41","slug":"south-korea-to-launch-mass-coronavirus-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22355","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to launch mass coronavirus testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">SEOUL\/BEIJING \u2014 South Korea aims to test more than 200,000 members of a church at the center of a surge in coronavirus cases, as countries stepped up efforts to stop a pandemic of the virus that emerged in China and is now spreading in Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">More than 80,000 people have been infected in China since the outbreak began, apparently in an illegal wildlife market in the central city of Wuhan late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">China&#8217;s death toll was 2,663 by the end of Monday, up 71 from the previous day. But the World Health Organization (WHO) has said the epidemic in China peaked between Jan. 23 and Feb. 2 and has been declining since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">However, fast-spreading outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea, and first cases in several Middle East countries, have fed worries of a pandemic, or worldwide spread of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL\/BEIJING \u2014 South Korea aims to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22356,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22355\/revisions\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}