{"id":43342,"date":"2022-02-11T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=43342"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:17:37","slug":"s-koreas-new-covid-19-cases-over-50000-for-2nd-day-amid-raging-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/02\/11\/s-koreas-new-covid-19-cases-over-50000-for-2nd-day-amid-raging-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s new COVID-19 cases over 50,000 for 2nd day amid raging Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s daily COVID-19 infections stayed above 50,000 for the second day in a row Friday amid the fast spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant across the nation, Yonhap reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country reported 53,926 new COVID-19 infections, including 53,797 local cases, raising the total to 1,239,287, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It marks the second day in a row that the daily tally exceeded the 50,000 level. A daily record high of 54,122 was reported Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll from COVID-19 came to 7,012, up 49 from Thursday, KDCA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s daily COVID-19 infections stayed above 50,000 for the second day in a row Friday amid the fast spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant across the nation, Yonhap reported. The country reported 53,926 new COVID-19 infections, including 53,797 local cases, raising the total to 1,239,287, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43344,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43342\/revisions\/43344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}